Question

Within an anchor, this works:

$(this).prepend('<span>This is the span content</span>');

when trying to do if href equal to, it does not work

$('a[href="http://www.google.com"]').prepend('<span>You have selected Google</span>');

Answer 1

I have done a sample one and didn’t find any error.

<script>
$(function(){
    $("#btn1").click ( function() {
        $("a[href='http://www.google.com']").prepend ( "<span>You have selected Google</span>" );
    });
});
</script>
<a href="http://www.google.com">Click</a>
<button id="btn1">Click me</button>

Working Demo