title: how to get jquery anchor href value
body: <p>jQuery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() {
      $("a.change_status").click(function(){
         var status_id = $("a").val();
         alert(status_id); 
         return false;
      });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="?status=5" class="change_status"&gt;Aminul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;a href="?status=25" class="change_status"&gt;Arif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;a href="?status=15" class="change_status"&gt;Sharif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need <code>status_id</code> and for some reason my anchor tag is dynamic. I can't use id or make class name dynamic. I think, I need to use <code>$this</code> to get my value.</p>