Getting all mailto links with jQuery

Question

I need a pattern that will traverse the document and get me all links that have mailto in their href: ``` text ``` I could of course easily get all `a` elements (`$("a")`) and check each `href` attribute to see if it points to a mailto but I think that jQuery has some form of pattern matching that will allow me to do just that. What is the best way to achieve that?

Accepted Answer

```
$('a[href^="mailto:"]')
```

Double quotes are usually redundant, but needed in this special case, because `:` would otherwise be interpreted as the start of a pseudo-selector. So `$('a[href^=mailto]')` would also work, but in this particular scenario, the quotes are probably a neater way to go.

Getting all mailto links with jQuery

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