Question

I need to add a jQuery check that will launch any links across my site to external websites. How can I do the following:

Look for any anchor links that do not contain “xyz” in the hostname. For example:

• http://xyz.com
• http://asfasdfadsfadsf.xyz.com

It must ignore any links that contain xyz after the hostname though:

• http://someothersite.com/xyz

$('a[href^="http://%xyz%"]').filter(function() {
  return this.hostname && this.hostname !== location.hostname;
}).attr('target', '_blank');  

Answer 1

!(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test(link))

See this demo.

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JSHint Example:

/*global $:false */

(function() {

  "use strict";

  $('a').filter(function() {
    return !(/https?:\/\/[^\/]*xyz.*/i.test($(this).attr('href')));
  }).text("***");

}());