How to get anchor text/href on click using jquery?

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Published on 2010-04-16T11:05:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 11:13 UTC
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Consider i have an anchor which looks like this

<a href="~/Resumes/Resumes1271354404687.docx">
    ~/Resumes/Resumes1271354404687.docx
</a>

I want to get either href/text in jquery onclick of that anchor ...

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