Question

I have a var that returns an HTMLElement like this:

<li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active">
    <a href="#tabs-1">Tab 1</a>
    <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-close tabby">Remove Tab</span>
</li>

From this I want to take the value of the href in the a element.

I know I can take href value using .attr() but how can I “select” the a before?

Answer 1

Assuming var that as an HTMLElement as you have mentioned in the question you can try this

$(that).find('a').attr('href');