How to write a jQuery selector to find links with # in href attribute?


Example

You can try to run the following code to write a jQuery selector to find links with # in href. Here,^ is used to find links starting with # in href.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){

   $('a[href^="#"]').click(function(){
      alert('Success! Selected link starting with # in href.');
   });

});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<a href="#demo" title="new" >Demo</a><br>
<a href="/cplusplus/" title="C++ Tutorial" >C++</a>

</body>
</html>

Updated on: 18-Dec-2019

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