Get attribute of child element

Question

If I have the following markup:

    
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Answer 1

$("a span[sortcat]").attr('sortcat')

That'll give you the first element's sortcat value. To get all of them, do this:

$("a span[sortcat]").map(function(){ return $(this).attr('sortcat') })

See this working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/BwgDW/