Question

In jQuery, how do you select the <a> which href is pointing to the current URL

For example:
URL = http://server/dir/script.aspx?id=1

I want to select this <a>
<a href='/dir/script.aspx'>...</a>

I tried this but it doesn’t work:

var url = window.location.href; $('#ulTopMenu a[''+url+''*=href]').addClass('selected'); 

Probably wrong syntax. Anyone know the right way of doing it?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Thanks Remy, it didn’t really work but it’s close.
Here is my final code

  var scriptname = GetUrlScriptname();   $('#ulTopMenu a[href$='' + scriptname + '']').parent().addClass('selected');  function GetUrlScriptname() {   var rex = new RegExp('\\/[^\\/]+\\.\\w+($|\\?)');   var match = rex.exec(location.pathname);   return match[0].substring(1); }