Accessing <a> inside div id

im trying to color the 开发者_JAVA百科<a> background color

<div id="contact"><a href="mailto:name@.domain.net>name</a>

with the selector

$('#contact a').css("background", "red");

however im not successfull, where is my error?

you are missing a double quotes in the end of href

see demo http://jsfiddle.net/URJPV/1/

try this one:

<a id="contact_link" href="mailto:name@.domain.net>name</a>

$('a#contact_link').css("background", "red");