How to find anchor tag in div and add class?

Question

I have a particular div class in which there is anchor tag with no class and i have to add class to it using jquery. This is sample html

<div id="mydiv"><a href="www.google.com">myclass</a></div>

This is what i am trying but not working

$('.myclass','a').attr('class','myclass');

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to use .addClass():

$('#mydiv a').addClass('myclass');

Working Fiddle