jQuery: How to get the value of an html attribute?

Question

I\'ve got an html anchor element:

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...and I want to get the contents of the title so

Answer 1

You can simply use this.title inside the function

$('a').click(function() {
    var myTitle = $(this).attr ( "title" ); // from jQuery object
    //var myTitle = this.title; //javascript object
    alert(myTitle);
});

Note

Use another variable name instead of 'alert'. Alert is a javascript function and don't use it as a variable name