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

jQuery itself doesn't support URL parsing. However there are lots of jQuery extensions available which do and make this an easy task. For example

• https://github.com/allmarkedup/jQuery-URL-Parser

With this extension you can do the following

$('#pages').delegate("a", "click", function(e) {
  var href = $(this).attr('href');
  var url = $.url(href);
  var query = url.attr('query')
  ...
});

The extension itself supports much more than just the query string. You can use attr for practically every part of the url.