[jQuery] how to output element in string

[cc96ai]

<a id="link" href="/test.html" target="_new">my link</a>

after remove the target attribute
$("#link").removeAttr("target");

I want to get the string is
<a id="link" href="/test.html" >my link</a>

but how could I ?
I don't think jquery have toString() function,
any idea ?