Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token using anchor tag in for each

Question

my code

 function forgotpassword() { $('a').each(function(index, element) { if ($(element).attr("href") == "forgotpassword") { $(element).html("It Worked!"); // Change this to .html() } else { alert('not available'); } });​ } 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> 

so its generated error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

and my code don't work

i have to compare anchor href value to another value

i have also search similar question in stackoverflow but it different type of code

Answer 1

If you check the error in the console, you can click the line number which causes the error and see the code:

You can see from the red dot that you have an illegal character; that is the source of your problem. Just delete that character and the code works without error:

 function forgotpassword() { $('a').each(function(index, element) { if ($(element).attr("href") == "forgotpassword") { $(element).html("It Worked!"); // Change this to .html() } else { alert('not available'); } }); } 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>