I need to update href value using jquery

Question

I need to update href value thorughout the page using jquery. Say href=\"http://www.google.com?gsec=account\" should be changed to href=\"http://account.google.com?gsec=acco

Answer 1

This should hopefully provide a pretty full solution to your problem (as best I can interpret it, anyway):

$(function() {
  $('a').each(function() {
    var $this = $(this),
      href = $this.attr('href');
    var res = href.match(/(.*?)(www)(\.google\.com.*?)([?&]gsec=)([^&]+)(.*)/);
    if (null != res) {
      // remove the "full match" entry
      res = res.slice(1);
      // replace www match with account match
      res[1] = res[4];
      // update the href attribute
      $this.attr('href', res.join(''))
    }
  });
});

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edit: If "account" is a static value, then this will work as well:

$(function() {
  $('a').each(function() {
    var $this = $(this),
      href = $this.attr('href');
    var res = href.match(/(.*?\/\/)(www)(\.google\.com.*?)([?&]gsec=account)(&?.*)/);
    if (null != res) {
      // remove the "full match" entry
      res = res.slice(1);
      // replace www match with account match
      res[1] = 'account';
      // update the href attribute
      $this.attr('href', res.join(''))
    }
  });
});

Please note that these solutions assume that there may be other variations in the URL, such as http/https and other query string variables.