Get text from anchor tag

Question

I have the following anchor tag

Google

I know how to get the href from an anchor take:

Answer 1

Use .text() for this:

alert($(this).text());

If you wanted the markup (.text() removes tags and such), use .html()

alert($(this).html());

In this case there's no difference, if instead you had this:

Google (External)

Then there would be:

$(this).text() //"Google (External)"
$(this).html() //"Google (External)"