Getting an anchor element's absolute URL with jQuery

Question

Given an anchor element (with something like $(\"a:first\")), how do you get the absolute URL that the anchor points to?

Answer 1

to get the URL attached you can do something like...

var url = $("a:first").attr('href'); this will give you the URL but doesnt guarantee absolute or relative.

To find the absolute URL you can further check

if(!url.startsWith("http")) { url = "http://www.mysite.com" + url}