get the value of “onclick” with jQuery?

Question

Is it possible to get the current value of the onClick attribute of an A tag via jQuery?

For example, I have:

Answer 1

$('#google').attr('onclick') + ""

However, Firebug shows that this returns a function 'onclick'. You can call the function later on using the following approach:

(new Function ($('#google').attr('onclick') + ';onclick();'))()

... or use a RegEx to strip the function and get only the statements within it.