how to get attribute from any selected object in jquery

for example

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" class="selected">stackoverflow</a>

my jquery is h开发者_Go百科ere

alert($('.selected').attr('href'));

but this don't work

How to get attribute from selected object?

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The anchor tag should have an href attribute, not src.

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You say scr in the anchor tag and src in the jquery expression. Also anchors have href not src attributes.