Get href attribute from dom element

Question

This is the code I'm using to try and get all the hrefs ONLY from the nav:

componentDidMount(){
    $("nav ul li a").each(function(k, j){
      console.log(j);
    });
  }

From this I am successfully getting all of the dom elements printed out on the console as such:

<a href="#home" class="nav-link">Home</a>
<a href="#about" class="nav-link">About</a>
...etc...

Now to try and actually pull out the href string, I've attempted many things such as trying to console.log(j.attr('href')) (in the loop shown above), but have nothing working yet. (TypeError: j.attr is not a function)

What should I use for this? and also my application is built in ReactJS so I was wondering if there was maybe a more appropriate way to achieve this, with something such as refs

Many thanks

Answer 1

if you want to get rid of slicing the string which u get using j.href, you can even use getAttribute on j.

 $("a").each(function(k, j) { console.log(j.getAttribute("href")); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <a href="#home" class="nav-link">Home</a> <a href="#about" class="nav-link">About</a> 

Answer 2

Here's a working solution. Hope it helps!

 $("a").each(function(){ console.log($(this).attr("href")); }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <a href="#home" class="nav-link">Home</a> <a href="#about" class="nav-link">About</a> 

Answer 3

one line change in your code

  $("nav ul li a").each(function(k, j){ console.log($(this).attr('href')); }); 

  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script> <nav class="navbar navbar-default"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="navbar-header"> <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">WebSiteName</a> </div> <ul class="nav navbar-nav"> <li class="active"><a href="home">Home</a></li> <li><a href="page1">Page 1</a></li> <li><a href="page2">Page 2</a></li> <li><a href="page3">Page 3</a></li> </ul> </div> </nav>