title: jquery get target value for href
body: <p>Using jquery how do I find out the target value of a href link.  e.g. if my link was</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="someurl.com" id="the_link" target="_blank"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>the target would be _blank</p>