how to get attribute from any selected object in jquery

Question

for example

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" class="selected">stackoverflow</a>

my jquery is here

alert($('.selected').attr('href'));

but this don't work

How to get attribute from selected object?

Answer 1

The anchor tag should have an href attribute, not src.

Answer 2

You say scr in the anchor tag and src in the jquery expression. Also anchors have href not src attributes.