Question

I’m working with a page that has several links that contain the same href text, and I need to select the second anchor element on the page that contains said href text. Here’s a simplified version of the link structure of the page:

<a href="same/link/to/stuff/">same link</a>
<a href="same/link/to/stuff/">same link</a>

How do I fashion my selector so that it only selects the second anchor in the above example?

Currently I’m trying:

$('a[href=same/link/to/stuff/] :eq(1)')

but it is not working.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

As Patrick Karcher noted, you’re missing a slash.

Also, you shouldn’t have a space before :eq(1).

$('a[href=same/link/to/stuff/]:eq(1)');

Spaces in selectors imply that the item after the space is a descendant of the item before the space.

The way you had it, you were attempting to select the second descendant element of a[href=same/link/to/stuff/].