title: Selenium HowTo : Get url from an <a> tag that has no href attribute
body: <p>I have to get a link (that normally opens a new window on click) to open in the current window. My intent was to take the href attribute and just navigate to the url, but the link has no href attribute, it only has it's id and a class.</p>
  
  <p>ex. <code>&lt;a id="thisLink" class="linkOut"&gt;someLinkText&lt;/a&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>I only noticed when I tried to get the href attribute and received null. Is there a way to get the resulting url without opening the link or a way to open this link in the current window instead of a new one?</p>
  
  <p>I'm testing the site through selenium webdriver and need to check the resulting page without opening it in a new window.</p>