How to add style to selector via jquery.?

Question

Will the following code work?

var htmlattri="background-color:red;";
$('a').css("style",htmlattri);

If not, what is the correct solution?

Answer 1

You could add it to the style attribute:

$('a').attr('style', htmlattri);

But I would use .css():

$('a').css('background-color', 'red');

Or better yet, do it with a stylesheet and just use .addClass().