JQuery How to extract value from href tag?

Question

I am new to JQuery.

If I have the following tag. What is the best JQuery method to extract the value for "page" from the href.

<a href="Search/Advanced?page=2">2</a> 

Malcolm

Answer 1

The first thing that comes to my mind is a one-liner regex:

var pageNum = $("#specificLink").attr("href").match(/page=([0-9]+)/)[1]; 

Answer 2

I see two options here

var link = $('a').attr('href'); var equalPosition = link.indexOf('='); //Get the position of '=' var number = link.substring(equalPosition + 1); //Split the string and get the number. 

I dont know if you're gonna use it for paging and have the text in the <a>-tag as you have it, but if you should you can also do

var number = $('a').text();