Question

I want to use jquery to select a specific anchor tag on my page, and apply the replace() method to it (I am trying to replace &#039 with %27, I am having apostrophe issues when submitting my form…) and I’m not sure exactly how to do this. I started to write this:

    $(".view-subscription-admin tbody td.views-field-nothing a").attr("href

and then realized that I wasn’t sure how to use this with the replace function. How would I do this?

Answer 1

$(".view-subscription-admin tbody td.views-field-nothing a")
              .attr("href", function(i, oldHref) {
                   return oldHref.replace('&#039', '%27');
               });

.attr() method support a callback function and within that argument you can do your replace code and return that href.