Manipulating strings in jQuery

Question

Hi folks

I've got an anchor tag with a specific URL to which I want to add a class. I'm currently doing this as follows:

$('a[href=http://this.ismyurl.com/folder/file.html]').addClass('red');

The problem I have is that this URL is not consistent. The filename, file.html is always the same, so if I could manipulate this string and focus on the last 9 characters (for instance) then I could add a class in the same way. The problem is, I'm not sure how to do this.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Ronnie

Answer 1

var url = "http://someurl.com"
$('a[href='+url+']').addClass('red');

Answer 2

You're looking for the attribute end with selector $=

$('a[href$="file.html"]').addClass('red');

Answer 3

You can use a wildcard in your jQuery selector. I believe this will work:

$('a[href$=/file.html]').addClass('red');

That will add the 'red' class to all links with an href ending in '/file.html'.