How to receive a data from a link attributes

Question

Can you tell me, how to get data from a link attribute?

Example :

<a href="#" target="2">link</a>

I want get the data from 'target' attribute to send to server.

Answer 1

jQuery

You can also do the same thing in jQuery using the .attr() function.

var target = $("#link").attr("target");

console.log(target);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a href="#" target="2" id="link">link</a>

Pure Javascript

You can use .getAttribute() like below. (I used document.getElementById() to get the element, and .getAttribute to get the value of the target attribute)

var target = document.getElementById("link").getAttribute("target");

console.log(target);

<a href="#" target="2" id="link">link</a>