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

Yes, you can use the .search property of the link...

alert( this.search );

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DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/sHqmF/

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To get rid of the ?, just .slice() it...

this.search.slice(1)

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DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/sHqmF/1/