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I'm new to JQuery/Javascript etc... based on the following article: How to make an anchor tag refer to nothing?

I would like to apply the java function to several id's. Can we not make the function execute for classes as opposed to ids?

<span class="style1" id="myid">Link</span> 
<span class="style1" id="myid">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid">Link</span>
$('myid').click(function() { 
    /* put your code here */ 
Basically as above, how do I execute the function above for ALL of the links? Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
                Thanks for clarifying, I am now using classes instead. When I said "link" - I was referring to the span class, (as reference from the other article)...
– RiceBucket
                Mar 29, 2012 at 9:29
<span class="style1" id="myid1">Link</span> 
<span class="style1" id="myid2">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid3">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid4">Link</span>
<span class="style1" id="myid5">Link</span>
then use this code
$('#myid1,#myid2,#myid3,#myid4,#myid5').click(function() { 
    /* put your code here */ 
                +1 this answers the original question, but in this case one single class selector would have done the job.
– GoodSp33d
                Jun 10, 2013 at 12:47
                this is what i needed because i have different radio buttons i needed to behave this way. thanks!
– Alejo_Blue
                Jun 12, 2018 at 17:34
First off, IDs should  be unique.  You should not have multiple elements with the same ID.
To select by ID in jQuery use the # character.  $('#myid').  This will get the first element with that ID, as there should only be one (you can kinda cheat by doing $('[id="myid"]') to get get multiple elements with the same ID).
I suggest using a class to select all of your links.  Classes are selected using the . character.
$('.style1').click(function(){});
        
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