jQuery: If this HREF contains

Question

Why can\'t I get this to work??

$(\"a\").each(function() {
    if ($(this[href$=\"?\"]).length()) {
        alert(\"Contains questionmark\");
    }
});
         


        

Answer 1

Along with the points made by others, the $= selector is the "ends with" selector. You will want the *= (contains) selector, like so:

$('a').each(function() {
    if ($(this).is('[href*="?"')) {
        alert("Contains questionmark");
    }
});

Here's a live demo ->

As noted by Matt Ball, unless you will need to also manipulate links without a question mark (which may be the case, since you say your example is simplified), it would be less code and much faster to simply select only the links you want to begin with:

$('a[href*="?"]').each(function() {
    alert("Contains questionmark");
});