[jQuery] How to get specific attribute of element?

[jQuery] How to get specific attribute of element?

Hi,
I'm pretty new to jQuery and I'm loving it! it's fantastic.
I know to set the attributes using the set() function, but how I can
get the attributes?
or better yet, how to incrementally add a value to existent attribute?
Thanks
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