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MySQL
MySQL

Reputation: 181

Clicking an anchor tag with certain hyperlink

How would I access(throught JavaScript) an anchor element without it having any attributes except "href"?

Example: <a href="http://www.example.com/forum/addPost/id=5"

Okay, now the "id" in the URL changes, so can I use like substr(), or something else to "cut" the href attribute value in half. So it would now be href="http://www.example.com/forum/addPost/id=".

Now what if there were multiple anchor tags on the page, how would I 'access' the anchor tag with the specific href?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 309

Answers (2)

RobG
RobG

Reputation: 147513

There is a document.links collection that is all the links in the document, so:

var links = document.links;
var re = /www\.example\.com\/forum\/addPost/;

for (var i=0, iLen=links.length; i<iLen; i++) {

  if (re.test(links[i].href)) {
    // do stuff with the href value
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

xcopy
xcopy

Reputation: 2288

If you are not opposed to using jQuery, this is pretty straightforward. To access a hyperlink if you have the ID value to search with:

var $anchor = $('a[href$="<ID value>"]');

The $anchor object would be a reference to the DOM element whose href ends with the ID that you specify.

Upvotes: 2

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