Get link name in javascript

Question

Example

<a href="example.html">Example Name</a>

I would like to get "Example Name"

I know I can do this with regex, but I'm looking for a simpler, faster approach. The closest I came was with Jquery using the .attr("href") attribute. I tried putting .attr("title"), but that doesn't work since I technically don't have a title there.

Answer 1

.text()

Answer 2

Try this

var t = $('a').text();
alert(t);

http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/gZsbW/

Of course, this targets the first link it encounters. Better if you can hook it to an ID.

Example

<a href="example.html" id="linkName">Example Name</a>

Then

var t = $('#linkName').text();