Question

I am troubleshooting this line of code: e is of type image(img) and b is of type link(a). It seems to be concatenating the local host to e.src and not doing just a direct copy of the string.

Where is reference material located on the Mozilla Development Network that lists object properties, particularly the .src property of my image?

Answer 1

You need to assign a proper href attribute if you want to extract the hostname.

Instead of:

<a href="www.ay.com">link</a>

you should do:

<a href="http://www.ay.com">link</a>

or at least:

<a href="//www.ay.com">link</a>

Then you’ll be able to extract the hostname. Otherwise the browser assumes www.ay.com is a local file or directory.

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If for some reason you can’t change the href, then you’ll need to use getAttribute() to be able to retrieve it unmodified.

e.src=b.getAttribute('href');