I have 2 anchor tags

<li><a id="tab1" href="#tabs-1">Issue</a></li>
<li><a id="tab2" href="#tabs-2">Change Request</a></li>

I have the following jquery:

$('a').click(function(event) {
                                alert($('a').attr("id"));
            });

What happens: I always get "tab1" in the pop up

What I need: when user clicks on an anchor tag, its id needs to be displayed in the pop up