Question

i want to read the query string value from this anchor tag by jquery.

<td><a href="#?acckey={{user.key()}}" class="generate_url">Get URL</a></td>

this is what i wrote and it is not working

$('.generate_url').each(function () {
    $(this).click(function () {
        alert(acckey)

    });

});

but this is not working. any one know to fix this issue?

Answer 1

$('.generate_url').on('click', function() {
    var m = this.href.match(/acckey=(.*)/),
    acckey = m ? m[1] : '';

    alert(acckey);
});

It matches the href value against a regular expression and uses the first memory group. The acckey will be set to empty string if no match was found.

Update

To get the whole match (i.e. “acckey=xxx”), you would need to use m[0] instead of m[1].

Btw, I’ve removed the .each() because you were only adding a click handler.