How can I get the URL of a link?

Question

$('.l').eq(0).href

is what I want to do, but it's undefined.

So given a jQuery selected anchor element, how do you get the href property?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179713/how-to-change-the-href-for-a-hyperlink-using-jquery — sethobrien, Aug 23 '11 at 07:00
Just image you have this: `
Foo
`. Would the question make sense? That's why you need to post your HTML. — Álvaro González, Aug 23 '11 at 07:00
@RobG, excuse me, could you proof your statement with some links to W3C? — Daniel O'Hara, Aug 23 '11 at 07:02
Fill yer boots: [HTML attributes](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html). href applies to A, AREA, LINK, BASE. Read the specification for an [A element](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-A). In short, an A with a href is a link. An A with no href and a name or id is an anchor. Also [DOM 2 HTML anchors](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-7577272) collecton and [links collection](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-7068919). — RobG, Aug 23 '11 at 07:25
Lastly, there's the [HTMLAnchorElement](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-48250443) and [HTMLLinkElements](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-35143001).If it has an *href* that links to a resource, it's a link. If it has a *name* that's the target of a link, it's an anchor. It can have both *name* and *href* and so be both an anchor and a link. The OP is after links. — RobG, Aug 23 '11 at 07:33

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:00

7

Try:

$('.l').eq(0).attr("href")

answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:00

Igor Dymov

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:05

0

Are you sure you're selecting the link? Because I'm trying this in my site and ir works just fine:

    $('#id')[0].href

I mean, are you sure the $('.l').eq(0) part is working?

answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:05

rafa

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:16

0

I think this is what you're looking for $('.1 a')[0].href

answered Aug 23 '11 at 07:16

Xeo

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