How do I test to see if links are external or internal? Please note:
I suspect the answer lies somewhere in location.href, but the solution evades me.
Thanks!
I know this post is old but it still shows at the top of results so I wanted to offer another approach. I see all the regex checks on an anchor element, but why not just use window.location.host
and check against the element's host
property?
function link_is_external(link_element) { return (link_element.host !== window.location.host); }
With jQuery:
$('a').each(function() { if (link_is_external(this)) { // External } });
and with plain javascript:
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { if (link_is_external(links[i])) { // External } }
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