How to find a link in a page based on its href attribute?

Question

I am trying to find the first link of my page which url fit to "AAA" (example).

I first try to get the links with this href:

$('a[href$="AAA"]')

Then selec the first one:

$('a[href$="AAA"]')[0]

Then target the title attribute of this link

$('a[href$="AAA"]')[0].attr("title");

But all of this return me "undefined", at each step. How to do that?

Example anchor:

<a href="contents/medias/images/news/news_test_big.jpg" title="Nouvelle réalisation en ligne 1 FR" target="_blank" class="imageLink">

Answer 1

How about:

$("a[href='AAA']").first().attr("title")
// or
$("a[href='AAA']:first").attr("title")

Then it depends if you want the href to be equal to 'AAA', contains it, starts/ends with it. In that case you wouldn't use href= but href$= for instance. Neil's answer contains the different types of tests you can use.

If you could post your HTML code it would help as well.