title: HTML Value finding
body: <p>I know that "this.value" can get the value of the <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> tag:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="users" onchange="showUser(this.value)"&gt;
    &lt;option value=""&gt;Select a person:&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="1"&gt;Peter Griffin&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="2"&gt;Lois Griffin&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="3"&gt;Joseph Swanson&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="4"&gt;Glenn Quagmire&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But how to get a value (value="IE") from the <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> tag, because this doesn't work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="#" value="IE" onclick="showUser(this.value)"&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>