Regular expression for getting HREF from footer

Question

I have a requirement where I need to get the last HREF in the HTML code, means getting the HREF in the footer of the page.

Is there any direct regular expression for the

Answer 1

No regex, use the :last jQuery selector instead. demo :

<a href="foo-link">foo</a>
<a href="bar-link">bar</a>
var link = $("a:last");

Answer 2

You could use plain JavaScript for this (if you don't need it to be a jQuery object):

var links = document.links;
var lastLink = links[links.length - 1];
var lastHref = lastLink.href;
alert(lastHref);

JS Fiddle demo.

Disclaimer: the above code only works using JavaScript; as HTML itself has no regex, or DOM manipulation, capacity. If you need to use a different technology please leave a comment or edit your question to include the relevant tags.

Answer 3

It's not a good idea to parse html with regular expressions. Have a look at HtmlParser to parse html.