How to get the anchor from the URL using jQuery?
I have a URL that is like: www.example.com/task1/1.3.html#a_1 How can I get the a_1 anchor value using jQuery and store it as a variable? Nick Craver You can use the .indexOf() and .substring() , like this: var url = "www.aaa.com/task1/1.3.html#a_1"; var hash = url.substring(url.indexOf("#")+1); You can give it a try here , if it may not have a # in it, do an if(url.indexOf("#") != -1) check like this: var url = "www.aaa.com/task1/1.3.html#a_1", idx = url.indexOf("#"); var hash = idx != -1 ? url.substring(idx+1) : ""; If this is the current page URL, you can just use window.location.hash to