Let’s say we have the following anchor tag with URL −
<a class="demo" title="get the url" href="./mainPage.jsp/1245">href value at console</a>
We need to get only the URL value i.e. the href attribute value. For this, use attr() −
attr('href')Example
Following is the code −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<body>
<ul class="getURLDemo">
<li>
<a class="demo" title="get the url" href="./mainPage.jsp/1245">href value at console</a>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
<script>
var hrefValue = $('ul.getURLDemo li a.demo').attr('href');
console.log(hrefValue);
</script>
</html>To run the above program, save the file name “anyName.html(index.html)”. Right click on the file and select the option “Open with Live Server” in VSCode editor −
Output
This will produce the following output on console −
The output in console −
