JQuery How to extract value from href tag

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I am new to JQuery   If I have the following tag  What is the best JQuery method to extract the value for  page  from the href    lt a href  Search Advanced page 2  gt 2 lt  a gt    Malcolm

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The first thing that comes to my mind is a one-liner regex   var pageNum       specificLink   attr  href   match  page   0-9      1

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I see two options here  var link      a   attr  href    var equalPosition   link indexOf         Get the position of     var number   link substring equalPosition   1     Split the string and get the number    I dont know if you re gonna use it for paging and have the text in the  lt a gt -tag as you have it  but if you should you can also do  var number      a   text

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Use this jQuery extension by James Padoley

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First of all you need to extract the path with something like this      a myLink   attr  href      Then take a look at this plugin  http   plugins jquery com project query-object  It will help you handle all kinds of querystring things you want to do    Peter F

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Here s a method that works by transforming the querystring into JSON     var link      a   attr  href     if  link indexOf         -1        var query   link split      1        eval  query        query replace   amp  ig         replace    ig                         if  query page          alert unescape query page        else         alert  No page parameter       else       alert  No querystring        I d go with a library like the others suggest though

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if     a   on  Clicked   text   search  1      -1          Page    1   else         Page    1

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