jQuery get hash of element using .on() event

Question

Before I get flamed with references to manuals, I have been researching this for quite some time, and keep getting dead ends. Not even sure how to debug it properly. So if

Answer 1

Your a element doesn't have a hash attribute. try getting the href attribute and using javascript's substr and indexOf functions to split the string at the #

var href = $(this).attr("href");
var hash = href.substr(href.indexOf("#"));

You can also use

$(this).prop("hash");