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Asked: 2026-06-17T23:53:25+00:00

I am trying to get the href value of an anchor tag using jquery,

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I am trying to get the href value of an anchor tag using jquery, instead of getting the absolute url, jquery returns just the url without the file part: This is what i mean:

My Html/php

$url = "http://localhost/mysite/assets/data.txt";
<a class='view-chart' href="<?php echo $url?>">View Chart</a>

My jQuery Code:

var url = $('a.view-chart').attr('href');
alert(url);

I get this on the alert:

http://localhost/mysite/assets/

but when I view source on the browser, I see

http://localhost/mysite/assets/data.txt

But if I do:

<a class='view-chart' href="http://localhost/mysite/assets/data.txt">View Chart</a>

I get the correct alert message i.e:

http://localhost/mysite/assets/data.txt
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this. It worked for me in localhost

    <html>
    <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function(){ 
            var url = $('a.view-chart').attr('href');
            alert(url);
        });
    </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <?php $url = "http://localhost/mysite/assets/data.txt"; ?>
     <a class='view-chart' href="<?php echo $url;?>">View Chart</a>

    </body>
</html>
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