Getting all mailto links with jQuery

jquery pattern-matching mailto
Andreas Grech picture Andreas Grech · Nov 20, 2009 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

I need a pattern that will traverse the document and get me all links that have mailto in their href:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">text</a>

I could of course easily get all a elements ($("a")) and check each href attribute to see if it points to a mailto but I think that jQuery has some form of pattern matching that will allow me to do just that.

What is the best way to achieve that?

Answer

David Hedlund picture David Hedlund · Nov 20, 2009 
$('a[href^="mailto:"]')

Double quotes are usually redundant, but needed in this special case, because : would otherwise be interpreted as the start of a pseudo-selector. So $('a[href^=mailto]') would also work, but in this particular scenario, the quotes are probably a neater way to go.

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