Get attribute of child element

Question

If I have the following markup:

<p class="header hours">     <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="sort" sortcat="hours">         Hours&nbsp;<span class="imgholder" sortcat="hours">&nbsp;</span>     </a> </p> 

How can I target the <span> tag within the anchor tag? There are five other similar <p> tag entries, each with a different value for sortcat=

Answer 1

$(".sort").click(function(){   var cat =  $(this).children("span").attr("sortcat");   //do something with the sortcat });