Question

My a-tag (link) contains innerHTML which is an image like this:

.innerHTML = <img alt="hello world" src="/Content/Images/test.png">

How can I get the text of the alt attribute with JQuery?

Answer 1

Being $a your <a/> element.

Using jQuery you can do:

$("img", $a).first().attr("alt");

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Or, using pure JavaScript:

var $img = $a.getElementsByTagName("img")[0];
console.log($img.alt);

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