How to get the parameters of an href attribute of a link from the click event object

Question

Is there a simple way to get the parameters at the end of an href attribute of a clicked link using the click event object?

I have some jQuery code that looks like this:

Answer 1

You can use the this.href method to read the link attribute:

$('#pages').delegate("a", "click", function(e) {
   var str = this.href.split('?')[1];

Example:

str = 'friends.php?term=ma&p=2';
console.log(str.split('?')[1]); // output: term=ma&p=2