JavaScript: Get anchor from URL

Posted on 10. Jun, 2009 by Dragos in Apps, Coding, JavaScript & Ajax, PHP

To get the anchor from an URL (this is the text after the # character) in JavaScript you can use the following code:

var url='http://iwebdevel.com/some-post#comment-1'; //if you need to take the current url of the window use: var url=window.location;
var anchor=url.hash; //anchor with the # character
var anchor2=url.hash.substring(1); //anchor without the # character

If you’re iterating through the links in a page with JQuery, and $(this) defines a single link, then to find the anchor of this object you’d need to use the following code:

var anchor=$(this).attr("hash");

                    
                    

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