[jQuery] value of <a>

[jQuery] value of <a>


What I want to is :When user click on a link it will show text inside
the <a> tag. (ie. when user click in "more" it will show "more" in
alert.)
I have following code :
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/
TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
        <title>jq test</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    $("a").click( function( )
    {
        alert($("a").val()); // shows error
    });
});
</script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="#">tata</a>
        <a href="#">test</a>
        <a href="#">more</a>
    </body>
</html>
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When I run this code it shows following error.
TypeError: this[0].value has no properties
    at anonymous(void) (test/jq/js/jquery.js:335)
    at anonymous() (test/jq/alinks.htm:13)
    at anonymous(Object) (test/jq/js/jquery.js:1776)
    at anonymous() (test/jq/js/jquery.js:1620)