I need to disable a link tags (whose href attribute value starts with log.html) in my html table. I am trying to use string replace to do.
The code line looks approximately like this, str.replace(/log.html...../g,'') where there must be a regex pattern in the place of dots.
All patterns like this,
<a class="log" href="log.html#s1-s1-s1"></a>
<a class="log" href="log.html#s1-s2-s100"></a>
<a class="log" href="log.html#s10-s5-s1"></a>
must be made as,
<a class="log" href="#"></a>
You can use the following to match:
/log.html#[^"]*/g
And replace with #
Code:
str.replace(/log.html#[^"]*/g,'#')
See DEMO
<a> tag, there can be classes defined. I tried putting a * betweeen <a and \s to extract those characters. It didn't work. My usecase is <a class="log" href="log.html#s1-s2-s3">. I will change the question accordingly but still mark this answer as accepted.
What you are looking for is string.match(). This function returns an array of the match and any captured groups. You could test all your links with something like this:
$('a').each(function() {
href = $(this).attr("href");
if(href.match(/^log\.html/)) {
$(this).attr("href", "#");
}
});
This regex pattern seems to work given that the url is accessable as a string. This can easily be accomplished with jQuery.
str.replace(/log\.html.*/g,'#')
