What is the best way to cut the file name from 'href' attribute of an 'a' element using jQuery?

Question

For example I\'ve got the simple code:

  
Download file 01         


        

Answer 1

Though you don't have them in this case, in general you would want to strip off the ?search and #hash parts before looking for the last slash to get the file's leafname.

This is very easy using the built-in properties of the link object like pathname instead of processing the complete href:

var a= document.getElementById('link1');    // or however you decide to reference it
var filename= a.pathname.split('/').pop();  // get last segment of path