Problems to get address using onmouse over

Question

What is the best way get address value from <a> tag using onmouseover event?

<a href="http://facebook.com" onmouseover="">something</a>

Answer 1

<a href="http://facebook.com" onmouseover="alert(this.getAttribute('href'))">something</a>

Working demo.

You can store this result in variable using following code:

document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].onmouseover = function() {
    var hrefValue = this.getAttribute('href');
    alert(hrefValue); // use hrefValue
}

Working demo.