Link formatting and Google's identifying the link text

[Teacake23]

I'm currently working with a site that has the following link code structure:
<a id="main_widget" href="/widget.htm" title="New Widgets">
Whilst it works for a browser, my link text tools identify the link but fail to identify the link text - I wondered if spiders would have the same problem?

[tedster]

Note that your code example only shows a title attribute - is that where your question lies? In my most recent experiments, Google does not pick up title attributes.

Link text (also called anchor text) is something different - it falls in between the open and closing anchor tags, the actual content of the anchor element:

<a id="main_widget" href="/widget.htm" title="New Widgets">Link Text</a>

No matter what attributes are included in the opening tag, my experience is that Google will pick up that Link Text.

[Teacake23]

Thanks Tedster, always appreciate your feedback.
It was indeed the link text I was concerned about (not the title), I think my tools must be looking only for the text specifically following an 'a href' only.