I need to remove the mailto: from a javascript variable which containts the href attribute of an a element:

 var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href');

The output should just be the email address. I try to append the address to a div element:

$(this).append(email);

I need to remove the mailto: from a javascript variable which containts the href attribute of an a element:

 var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href');

The output should just be the email address. I try to append the address to a div element:

$(this).append(email);

• javascript
• jquery

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• Please use $(this). – Mihai Alexandru-Ionut Commented Jan 12, 2017 at 9:05

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Simply remove the "mailto:" prefix from the string inside email variable, using substring method:

var emailRef = 'mailto:[email protected]';
// Get the substring starting from the 7th character to the end of the string
var email = emailRef.substring(7);

console.log(email);

 var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href');
 var address = email.split('mailto:')[1];

 //Append to div
 $('#divId').append(address);

You can split on the basis of : present in href

var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href');
var onlyEmail = email.split(":")[1]

Just replace it. As simple as (this).append(email.replace("mailto:","");

change this as:

var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href').split(':')[1]; // gives you email

Here .split(':') will split the string at the index of : and returns an array then you can take the [1] first index to get the email.

For a demo:

var email = $('a').attr('href').split(':')[1];
console.log(email);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis./ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Get the mail of this anchor.</a>

After all, it's just text:

"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Hi"
    .replace(/^mailto:([^?]+).*/, '$1');

var email = $(this).find('a').attr('href');
$.each( email, function( key, value ) {
//check for mailto
 if (value.startsWith('mailto:')){
   //Append to div
   $(this).append(address);
  }
});