Test if links are external with jQuery / javascript?

Question

How do I test to see if links are external or internal? Please note:

1. I cannot hard code the local domain.
2. I cannot test for \"http\". I could just as

Answer 1

This doesn't exactly meet the "cannot hardcode my domain" prerequisite of the question, but I found this post searching for a similar solution, and in my case I could hard code my url. My concern was alerting users that they are leaving the site, but not if they are staying on site, including subdomains (example: blog.mysite.com, which would fail in most of these other answers). So here is my solution, which takes some bits from the top voted answers above:

Array.from( document.querySelectorAll( 'a' ) ).forEach( a => {
  a.classList.add( a.hostname.includes("mywebsite.com") ? 'local' : 'external' );
});

$("a").on("click", function(event) {
  if ($(this).hasClass('local')) {
    return;
  } else if ($(this).hasClass('external')) {
    if (!confirm("You are about leave the  website.")) {
      event.preventDefault();
    }
  }
});