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Asked: 2026-06-01T15:14:34+00:00

This script uses jsdom and jquery to get the value of an a tag’s

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This script uses jsdom and jquery to get the value of an a tag’s href attribute. For some reason it comes out fully qualified, relative to the path I’m running the script in. How can I get just the href value, not fully qualified?

var currentDoc = jsdom.jsdom('<html><head><title>href test</title></head><body><p><a href="test.html">Test</a></p></body></html>';, null, {});
var window = currentDoc.createWindow();
jsdom.jQueryify(window, 'jquery-1.4.2.min.js' , function() {
    console.log(window.$('a')[0]['href']);
});

(code snippet also at https://gist.github.com/2355968)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You want to use getAttribute instead of just the field accessor.

    var someLink = document.createElement("A");
someLink.href = "/foo";
someLink.href; // => "http://whatever.com/foo"
someLink.getAttribute("href"); // => "/foo"
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