How to get the child of an element being dragged with jQuery UI

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Published on 2010-06-07T00:48:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 0:52 UTC
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I have the following html:

<div id="gallery">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="url I want to get">link</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>

and some jQuery that allows it to be dropped on another div:

$trash.droppable({
                accept: '#gallery > li',
                activeClass: 'ui-state-highlight',
                drop: function(ev, ui) {
                    deleteImage(ui.draggable);

          var  $flickrparenturl =  $("a").attr("href");  //only gets href of <li> #1, not <li> being dragged

             $.post("updateDB.php", { 'flickrparenturl': $flickrparenturl } );
                            }


            });

What is the correct way to get the href attribute of the child of the element being dragged? $("a").attr("href"); is only getting the href of the 1st li on the page, not the one being dragged.

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