this.href vs $(this).attr('href')

Question

After reading this article net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/14-helpful-jquery-tricks-notes-and-best-practices/ I came to conclusion that using this.href<

Answer 1

what a but a little substring?

for example :

function getHref(a)
{
    var i = a.outerHTML.indexOf('href="')+6;
    return a.outerHTML.substring(i, a.outerHTML.indexOf('"', i));

}

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