Question

If I have following html code

<div id="tabs">
    <ul>
       <li><a href="#tab-One" class="tabLink">This is tab one</a></li>
       <li><a href="#tab-Two" class="tabLink">This is tab two</a></li>
    ...
    </ul>
</div>

How could I fetch this string to some js variable One or Two (this will be ofcourse dynamic data).
This string is exactly between #tab- and class=

Answer 1

Assuming you want to do this on click, you could do the following

var activeTab = null;
$('#tabs .tabLink').click(function() {
    activeTab = $(this).attr('href').split('-')[1];
    window.alert(activeTab);
});