title: jquery:how to get the id of anchor tag
body: <p>I have 2 anchor tags</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a id="tab1" href="#tabs-1"&gt;Issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a id="tab2" href="#tabs-2"&gt;Change Request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have the following jquery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('a').click(function(event) {
                                  alert($('a').attr("id"));
              });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What happens:
  I always get "tab1" in the pop up</p>
  
  <p>What I need:
  when user clicks on an anchor tag, its id needs to be displayed in the pop up</p>