Thanks for replying - as it turned out, in trying to go with what was suggested I realised I was doing it all wrong! It's my fault for not including the whole snippet I was working with (was trying to snip so I didn't confuse the issue) and I would have normally worked it out if it wasn't for the lack of sleep I have right now. Just so you know, I realized I needed to quantify the type of link when selecting it:
$("div a[href^=#]").click(function() { var link = $(this).attr("href"); .... Thanks for attempting to make sense of my nonsense :)