[jQuery] How to get the value of List and concatenate with JQUERY

[jQuery] How to get the value of List and concatenate with JQUERY


Hi All,
I have a list which is being populated dynamically from the database.I
am trying to capture the value of the list items (using click
function) and pass it to a query to get the result set.The value
attribute has been deprecated for LI.Please tell me a way to capture
the LI value.
<ul id="developerul">
<li value='1'>One</li>
<li value='2'>Two</li>
<li value='3'>three</li>
</ul>
For the above I have tried
$("#developerul".children())
and also $(this).children()
But does not work.
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And also how can we concatenate a ID value
ID="thelistItems"
the result should be "thelistItems_11130".
$("#thelistItems+ _ + 11130").append(txt);
Thanks