Hide Anchor tag based on href URL

Question

I was wondering if there is a possibility to HIDE anchor tags that refer to a particular URL. I know there is possible to hide based on id like this with JavaScript:

document.getElementById('someID').style.display = 'none';

<a href="#" id="someID" style="display: none">Check</a>

But let's say I want to hide all anchor tags based on URL example: www.example.com

<a href="www.example.com" id="someID" style="display: none">Check</a>
<a href="www.example2.com" id="someID" style="display: none">Check</a>

I want to hide the first anchor tag, not the second that refers to example2.com

Is this possible with pure JavaScript and not jQuery?

Solution 1

You can use document.querySelector to select bu attribute value like this.I have used no jquery the only javascript is used.

document.querySelector("[href='www.example.com']").style.display = 'none';

<a href="www.example.com" id="someID" style="display:block">Check</a>
<a href="www.example2.com" id="someID" style="display:block">Check</a>

Solution 2

You can make condition

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

if (url.href = "www.example.com")
{
url.style.display = none;
}

It is not exact code. i provided you example .kindly try it and let me know. It is for single . if you have many tags then loop all those

Solution 3

Simply loop through all anchor elements and then check their href:

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

for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
  if (anchors[i].href == 'https://example.com/') {
    anchors[i].style.display = 'none';
  }
}

<a href="https://example.com/" id="someID">Check</a>
<a href="https://example2.com/" id="someID">Check</a>

Solution 4

You can use javascript to do the job. Use querySelector to get all the elements with same id. Then loop the ids and compare the href link value.

<script>
var elements = document.querySelectorAll("[id='someID']");
for(var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
  if (elements[i].getAttribute("href") === "www.example.com") {
    elements[i].style.display='none';
  }
}
</script>

Working fiddle link

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Comments

[Asim]

@Ayush No, i want to hide all the a href elements that have url=example.com and not url=example2.com. the ID can be same ("someID")

[Asim]

Your answer was very like @Mayank's answer. I think your code and his are doing the same thing? Loop all anchor tags then if found href=example.com then hide it. or am i wrong?

[Mayank Patel]

Glad it helps you.

[Asim]

This will work, but if i have different ID on some places this code will not work. Ive formulated the question wrong sorry but @Mayank's answer covers this issue :) thanks anyway

[Ethan]

@Asim It ends up doing the same thing, but in a different way. My solution gets all of the <a> elements, loops through them and checks each to see if the href is matching. @Mayanak's answer actually uses a nifty CSS selector which selects all elements with a href of www.example.com, then simultaneously sets all of the displays to none. Their answer is actually much better and more efficient, I didn't think of it.

[Ayush]

@Asim No problem. :)