How can i grab the id value using jQuery?

[luke noob]

To explain i think I might be easier to show my code first...

My HTML is a form so someone can write and send a message. they can send the message to any name in my database.

<form method="post" name="postMessage" action="">
                
<textarea class="input" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea>

<input type="hidden" name="there_id" id="page_idmessage" value="" /> 
                    
<label for="search">Send To:</label>

This code is straight after...

As the user types in the input text box, the names from the database all apear in a dropdown-box type list. These names appear between the <div id="displaySend ">

                     
                 
<div id="searchBar">
    <input type="text" class="searchMessageSend" id="searchbox" /><br />
              
<div id="displaysend">
      

              </div>
           </div>   
        </div>

The code generated bettween the <div id="displaySend ">

looks like this....

<div style="position:relative;z-index:100000;">

<a href="#" class="click" id="24">

<div class="display_box" id="display_boxSearch"> 

<p id="searchName">Luke</p>

</div>

</a>

</div>

I would like to click the <a class="click" id="24">

And on-click pass the id value ( 24 ) into the value on this input field....

<input type="hidden" name="there_id" id="page_idmess age" value="" />

And also pass the name ( luke ) into the actual input box...

<input type="text" class="searchMe ssageSend" id="searchbox" />

I have tryed for ages and the best jQuery i could come up with is below, but doesn't seem to work :( ....

$(document).ready(function(){      
     
     $("a.click").click(function() {      
     
     var  Id = $(this).attr("id");
     var  name = $(this).children(text);
     
     $("#page_idmessage").val(Id);
     $("#searchbox").val(name);
     
     
     
     });    
         
});

please help.

[acoder]

Any error messages?

PS. the ID should not be numerical.