How to implement a closure in jQuery [on hold]

<p>I don't know much about jQuery. Here I am trying to implement a closure to attach a click event to each anchor tag so that each of them will alert a certain number once blicked. But I am getting the following error:</p><blockquote><pre><br /><code>SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list<br /><br /><br />};})(i);<br /></code><br /></pre></blockquote><p>can anyone help me with this problem?thanks :)</p><p>Code:</p><pre><br /><code><div id='pageBox'><br /> <ul id='pageContainer'><br /> <?php for($i=1;$i<=$pagenum;$i++){?><br /> <li><a href=''><?php echo $i;?></a></li><br /> <?php }?><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /><script><br />for(i=1;i<=<?php echo $pagenum;?>;i++){<br /><br /> $('#pageContainer li a').click((function(i){return function(event){<br /> event.preventDefault();<br /> alert(i);<br /> };})(i);<br /> );<br /><br />} <br /></code><br /></pre><br /><h2>Click here view more answers <a href="%20http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34525506/how-to-implement-a-closure-in-jquery">http://ift.tt/1QXmsX9</a></h2>