{"id":16666,"date":"2022-10-21T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-target-a-link-if-that-link-links-to-the-current-page\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:58:00","slug":"solved-target-a-link-if-that-link-links-to-the-current-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-target-a-link-if-that-link-links-to-the-current-page\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Target a link if that link links to the current page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-9951565\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"9951565\" data-parentid=\"9951444\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Try the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;\n&lt;html&gt;\n&lt;head&gt;\n  &lt;script src=\"http:\/\/code.jquery.com\/jquery-latest.js\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n&lt;\/head&gt;\n&lt;body&gt;\n\n&lt;ul id=\"sidebar\"&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/one\"&gt;One&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/two\"&gt;Two&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/three\"&gt;Three&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\n&lt;\/ul&gt;\n\n\n&lt;script&gt;\nvar pathname = window.location.pathname;\n\/\/$(\"a:contains('One')\").css(\"color\", \"red\"); \/\/ This will make One red (notice capital O)\n$(\"a:contains(pathname)\").css(\"color\", \"red\");\n\n&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Target a link if that link links to the current page? 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