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.

Answer 2

If you are changing all the links then:

$(document).ready(function() {
$("a").attr("href", "http://account.google.com?gsec=account");
});

Answer 3

lets say you have this:

<a href="http://www.ibm.com" id="myLink">

you should use this:

 var newHref = "http://google.com";

 $("#myLink").attr('href', newHref );

Answer 4

This will do the replace throughout the page that I think you're looking for.

// Find `<a>` elements that contain `www.google.com` in the `href`.
$('a[href*="www.google.com"]').attr('href', function(i,href) {
       // return a version of the href that replaces "www." with "accounts."
    return href.replace('www.', 'accounts.');
});

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/dT8j6/

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EDIT: This version allows for https:// and for links without the www..

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/dT8j6/1/

$('a[href*="google.com"]').attr('href', function(i,href) {
    return href.replace(/^http(s*):\/\/(www\.)*google.com/, 'http$1://accounts.google.com');
});

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EDIT: If you only wanted to change elements that have gsec=account, then change the selector to $('a[href*="gsec=account"]').

Answer 5

Use jQuery’s .attr() method. With one parameter, it returns the attribute value, with two parameters you set it.

$("a#whatever").attr("href", "http://account.google.com?gsec=account");

Answer 6

This is a duplicate of:

How to change the href for a hyperlink using jQuery

One scenario it doesn't mention is if you set an id on your anchor that needs to be changed then you can use the id as a selector in jQuery.

$("#LinkId").attr('href', "http://account.google.com?gsec=account")