Question

I have a dynamic href that does not have a class or id and I need to accomplish 2 things. First I need to be able to identify that the href is qualify.

Something along the lines of if

$("a[href*='somestring']")

do this:

captures whole href tag and prepends to it.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can use the attr() method with a function argument to modify the attribute instead of replacing it:

$('a').attr('href',function(i,v) { // you should use a more specific selector
    return "http://www.google.com?search=" + v;
});

http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/fXUNE/