Need help on getting text from anchor!

Hello,

I am using jquery to assign click event on a list of anchors by the following codes:

----html----
<a href="#" class="myLink">some text</a>

----js----
$('a.myLink').click(function(){
alert(this.text);
}

I can display "some text" on firefox and chrome but not IE(at least doesn't work on ie 8). Can someone tell me how to read text for ie?
Thank you.

 

use .innerHTML instead - http://www.jsfiddle.net/5AEj8/ (tested in ie7 and ff 3.5.7)

 

Thank you dimitar. It works like a charm.