how to find title text of a link

Question

How do I find the title text of a link in jquery.

Answer 1

$("a").click(function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  var title = $(this).attr("title");
});

Answer 2

You can use attr to find title attribute.

var title = jQuery("a").attr("title"); //replace "a" with your own selector

Answer 3

If you're trying to get the text of the title attribute of the link, you can use this, assuming that myLink is a jQuery object of your link:

myLink.attr("title")

However, if you mean the actual text of the link, then you can use this:

myLink.text()

You can read the jQuery documentation for the attr method here and the documentation for the text method here.