JQuery: How to extract an anchor from href

Question

I am quite new to JQuery.

I would like to get the value of an anchor from a href with JQuery.

If I'd have the following example, how could i get the value "5" from the href with JQuery?

<a href="user/showUsers#5">User 5</a>

Thanks in advance

-James

Answer 1

Use the following:

var id = $('a').attr('href').split('#');
id = id[id.length - 1];