extract link from html text

[newbiegalore]

Hello everyone,
I am new to JS and would appreciate any pointers about how to go about finding the html links on a html page.

I need to extrat the http link between the <a and </a tokens. Can someone please point me to a function that can do this.

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

var theAnchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for (var loop=0; loop<theAnchors.length; loop++) {
   alert(theAnchors[loop].href);
}

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If you need other parts of the anchor, investigate their other attributes, or try ".innerHTML" if that's what you need.

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[newbiegalore]

Hi there ,
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I am writing an extension for firefox and am using the xmlhttprequest object to retreive the html code for a site. The reply is in text/html format and somehow using getelementbyTagName does not work on it. Even replyvariable.links does not dump the list of links on the page..

this is the complication.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Is there anything else you're not telling us that would have been helpful to know in your original post?

If not, simply set the innerHTML of a newly-created node to be your response HTML, and then you can use all of the regular DOM functions on that node.

Dan



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