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Asked: 2026-06-19T01:38:11+00:00

I encounter a problem with jQuery and anchors which href concerns a microsoft desktop

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I encounter a problem with jQuery and anchors which href concerns a microsoft desktop windows application.
I am working on an internal app which provides links such as : 

<a id="launch-21" class="launch-app" href="c:\windows\explorer.exe" target="_blank">

I would like to target all the link containing windows for instance in order to bind the following actions : 

jQuery('a[href*="windows"]').click(function(event){
    alert("use this link in your windows workstation");
    event.preventDefault();
});

This has no absolutly no effect.
But when I run the following selector, elements are well returned.

It seems the treatment doesn’t work with hard drive links ?
jQuery(‘a[href*=”windows”]’)
Does anybody an help me ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your code seems to work without any problem,

    Maybe you’re running it before $(document).ready is triggered, or the links in question are loaded in the DOM and ready to be parsed using javascript.

    Try changing your javascript to:

    (I’ve created a fiddle for this, you may test it there)

    jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery('a[href*="windows"]').click(function(event){
        var link = jQuery(this).attr("href");
        window.prompt("use this link in your windows workstation", link);
        event.preventDefault();
    });
});

    (please note that i took the liberty of changing your alert to a prompt in order to do some testing)

    In alternative you can also move your javascript to the end of the page, before closing your <body> tag.

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