JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<ul>
    <li class="current-page">    // selected li
    <span>1</span>
    </li>
    <li class="individual-page">
    <a href="#">2</a>   // want href's value
    </li>
    <li class="individual-page">
    <a href="#">3</a>
    </li>
    </ul>

JavaScript

$("li.current-page").click(function(){
alert($(this).next("li").find("a").attr("href"));
});