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jQuery: Make $(this) apply ONLY to the last child clicked
How can I get $(this) to ONLY apply to the last child clicked on? For example, if I click on "Kale" only Kale should become red and not all parent <li> tags.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Examples</title>
<style type="text/css">
li {
cursor: pointer;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('li').click(function (e) {
$('li').css('background','transparent');
$(this).css('background','red');
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Animals
<ul>
<li>Mammals</li>
<li>Reptiles</li>
<li>Fish</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Minerals
<ul>
<li>Salt</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Vegitation
<ul>
<li>Fruit
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Peach</li>
<li>Pear</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Vegies
<ul>
<li>Leafy
<ul>
<li>Kale</li>
<li>Spinich</li>
<li>Lettuce</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Roots
<ul>
<li>Kale</li>
<li>Spinich</li>
<li>Lettuce</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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