jquery change style of a div on click

Question

I have a div, with a specific style(let's say a certain background).

What I want is, when one clicks on a list element having that div applied another specific style (another background type) to be applied to that div,

If another area in a different element belonging to that div is clicked, the style should not change.

Is it possible using jquery? thank you!

Edit: (my function does some other things also. but the changing color doesn;t work as i want. it changes the background of all items i click, not only the last clicked.)

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.product_types > li').click(function() {
        $(this)
        .css('backgroundColor','#EE178C')
        .siblings()
        .css('backgroundColor','#ffffff');

        $('#submit_button').removeAttr('disabled');
        $('#number').removeAttr('disabled');
    });
});

Answer 1

As what I have understand on your question, this is what you want.

Here is a jsFiddle of the below:

$('.childDiv').click(function() {
  $(this).parent().find('.childDiv').css('background-color', '#ffffff');
  $(this).css('background-color', '#ff0000');
});

.parentDiv {
  border: 1px solid black;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 80px;
  margin: 5px;
  display: relative;
}
.childDiv {
  border: 1px solid blue;
  height: 50px;
  margin: 10px;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="divParent1" class="parentDiv">
  Group 1
  <div id="child1" class="childDiv">
    Child 1
  </div>
  <div id="child2" class="childDiv">
    Child 2
  </div>
</div>
<div id="divParent2" class="parentDiv">
  Group 2
  <div id="child1" class="childDiv">
    Child 1
  </div>
  <div id="child2" class="childDiv">
    Child 2
  </div>
</div>

Answer 2

you can use .css method of jquery..

reference css method