Question

I’m looking for a bit of code (jquery if possible) that will remove any file extensions from links. For example

directory/page.html to directory/page
directory2/page2.cfm to directory2/page2

Is this possible?

Answer 1

jQuery can only select the elements for you, but not process the strings. Simple string manipulation will do it:

$('a').attr('href', function(i, value) {
    return value.substring(0, value.lastIndexOf('.'));
});

lastIndexOf is only supported in IE9 though, so maybe you have to use a regular expression:

return value.replace(/\..+$/, '');

Update: Regarding your comment, that’s even simpler, just use

 return value.replace(/\.cfm$/, '');

You could also restrict the set of links, by only selecting those that actually end with .cfm:

$('a[href$=".cfm"]')