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Does anyone know how can I get the clicked link's href with jquery? I have the link as following:

    <a  href="ID=1" class="testClick">Test1.</a>
    <br />
    <a  href="ID=2" class="testClick">Test2.</a>
    <br />
    <a  href="ID=3" class="testClick">Test3.</a>

I wrote a code as following to get the href value from the link I clicked on. But somehow this is always return me the 1st link's href (ID=1) even though I clicked on Test2 or Test3. Does anyone know what is it going on here? and how can I solve this issue?

    $(".testClick").click(function () {
        var value = $(".testClick").attr("href");
        alert(value );
    });
Jin Yong
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this in your callback function refers to the clicked element.

   $(".addressClick").click(function () {
        var addressValue = $(this).attr("href");
        alert(addressValue );
    });
Daff
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    Or one can just access it directly instead of creating a jQuery object. `var addressValue = this.href;` – Chris Apr 01 '11 at 00:43
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    FYI, if the href is relative `href="sibling_file.htm"` then $(this).attr("href") returns `sibling_file.htm` and this.href returns `https://example.com/folder/sibling_file.htm` (which is what I'd expected and wanted.) – Redzarf Dec 16 '17 at 22:34
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You're looking for $(this).attr("href");

Matt
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$(".testClick").click(function () {
         var value = $(this).attr("href");
         alert(value );     
});

When you use $(".className") you are getting the set of all elements that have that class. Then when you call attr it simply returns the value of the first item in the collection.

Paul
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Suppose we have three anchor tags like ,

<a  href="ID=1" class="testClick">Test1.</a>
<br />
<a  href="ID=2" class="testClick">Test2.</a>
<br />
<a  href="ID=3" class="testClick">Test3.</a>

now in script

$(".testClick").click(function () {
        var anchorValue= $(this).attr("href");
        alert(anchorValue);
});

use this keyword instead of className (testClick)

vishal ribdiya
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