jQuery: How to get the value of an html attribute?

I've got an html anchor element:

<a title="Some stuff here">Link Text</a>

...and I want to get the contents of the title so I can use it for something else:

$('a').click(function() {
    var title = $(this).getTheTitleAttribute();
    alert(title);
});

How can I do this?

$('a').click(function() {
    var title = $(this).attr('title');
    alert(title);
});

$('a').click(function() {
    var title = $(this).attr('title');
    alert(title);
});

$(this).attr("title")

You can simply use this.title inside the function

$('a').click(function() {
    var myTitle = $(this).attr ( "title" ); // from jQuery object
    //var myTitle = this.title; //javascript object
    alert(myTitle);
});

Note

Use another variable name instead of 'alert'. Alert is a javascript function and don't use it as a variable name