This property is relatively straightforward but I always see these problems in StackOverflow. You can pull the .attr() method on any HTML element and pass in the attribute string value. This will return the value of that attribute, whether it’s ID or class or name or maxlength. All HTML attributes may be accessed through this syntax and so it’s …

Setting_and_Getting_Attributes

var alink = $("a#user").attr("href"); // obtain href attribute value
$("a#user").attr("href", "http://www.google.com/"); // set the href attribute to a new value
$("a#user").attr({
  alt: "the classiest search engine",
  href: "http://www.google.com/"
}); // set more than one attribute to new values