Get an attributes value of the ALT attribute of a hyperlink

Question

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

.innerHTML = 

Answer 1

Being $a your 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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