How to get the value from anchor tag using jQuery?

Question

<a href="" id="a1">myval</a>

How to get the value which is in between anchor tag ie; here "myval" and then specify that value to a hidden box.I tried do it with my piece of code but couldn't figure it out.pls help

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $("#a1").click(function(e){
            //var str=$("#a1").getVal();        
            alert('hello');
        }
    });
</script>

Answer 1

var a1_text = $('#a1').text();

Answer 2

var a_href = $("#a1").attr("href");

Answer 3

You can use .text() to get the innertext of the anchor tag and .val() to store the value to a textbox.

$(function(){
    $("#a1").click(function(){
        $("#yourtextbox").val($(this).text());
    });
});

Answer 4

<a href="" id="a1">myval</a>

you can use var yourValue= $('#a1').text(); it will works fine