Question

I have a link:

<a href="">MyLink</a>

What I need to do with jQuery to edit the href attribute?

Answer 1

If you want to modify the displayed anchor text, use .text()

$('a').text(function(_, currentText) {
    return 'Here ' + text
});

That would change the line into

<a href="">Here MyLink</a>

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If you want to modify the linked href, use .attr()

$('a').attr('href', 'your new value');

You can use the .attr() the same way I demonstrated with .text() above (passing a function and access the current value also)

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Ref.: .attr(), .text()