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Reputation: 33

jQuery - find anchor by href value using a variable

I have a problem with selecting by href value assigned to a variable.

This code works as expected: $('a[href="/sites/example/page.aspx"]')

However, if I assign the above url to a variable, it doesn't find the href. e.g.

var myurl = "/sites/example/page.aspx" $('a[href=myurl]')

I tried entering the variable with or without quotes and a few different ideas, but can't get to it. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 276

Answers (2)

Zakaria Acharki
Zakaria Acharki

Reputation: 67505

You should use concatenation sign + to concatenate the variable to the selector else the selector will be something like :

a[href=myurl]

Instead of :

a[href="/sites/example/page.aspx"]


var myurl = "/sites/example/page.aspx";

console.log($('a[href="' + myurl + '"]').text());
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

<a href="/sites/example/page.aspx">Test</a>

Upvotes: 1

Devjit
Devjit

Reputation: 375

You are adding the variable in the quotes. You should concat the variable like this.

$('a[href='+myurl+']')

Upvotes: 0

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