Question

I have some anchor links which has id’s starts with "menu-".

<a href="" id="menu-alphabetic">
<a href="" id="menu-city">
<a href="" id="menu-country">

In my jquery code, I want to take only anchor links’ ids after menu-

For example:
$("a[id^=menu-]").click(function(){
   e.preventDefault();
   $(this).tab('show');
});  

But $(this) takes all id. I want only word which comes after menu-.

Answer 1

Use .split()

$("a[id^=menu-]").click(function(){
   e.preventDefault();

   $('#' + this.id.split('-')[1]).tab('show');
}); 

Also your HTML is not well Formed..

<a href="" id="menu-alphabetic">menu-alphabetic</a>
<a href="" id="menu-city">menu-city</a>
<a href="" id="menu-country">menu-country</a>

Check Fiddle