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santa
santa

Reputation: 12512

Detect if a string is a link w/jQuery

I need to be able to detect if a target string is a link or not. If yes, i need to grab the URL and place it into a var, do something with the string a (run through a plugin to truncate), and then wrap new string into the link again. I think i should be able to accomplish this with jQuery, right?

<div class="item">some string</div>
<div class="item">another string</div>
<div class="item"><a href="myUrl.php">linked string</a></div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 81

Answers (2)

Dominic Green
Dominic Green

Reputation: 10258

I think this should work for you it will find all links in the class off item

    $(".item a").each(function(index){

var url = $(this).attr("href");
url = url+"hello";
$(this).attr("href", url);

});

Example http://jsfiddle.net/gcLU4/

Upvotes: 0

maxedison
maxedison

Reputation: 17573

I guess you want something like:

$('.item > a').each(function(){
    var url = this.href;

    //do your stuff

});

Upvotes: 3

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