[javascript] How to get an element by its href in jquery?

I want to get an element by its href attribute in jquery or javascript. Is that possible?

Yes.

$('a[href=\'http://google.com\']')

http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/

var myElement = $("a[href='http://www.stackoverflow.com']");

http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/

If you want to get any element that has part of a URL in their href attribute you could use:

$( 'a[href*="google.com"]' );

This will select all elements with a href that contains google.com, for example:

• http://google.com
• http://www.google.com
• https://www.google.com/#q=How+to+get+element+by+href+in+jquery%3F

As stated by @BalusC in the comments below, it will also match elements that have google.com at any position in the href, like blahgoogle.com.