You forgot this one ;) http://plugins.jquery.com/project/parseQuery
(449 bytes, handles multiple name-value pairs with the same name) On Apr 21, 10:55 am, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simplest way is to use a regular expression: > > var location = /[?&]location=(\w+)&?/.exec( location.search ); > > there are also plugins to deal with the query string (a bit > overcomplicated but can be > useful):http://plugins.jquery.com/project/query-objecthttp://plugins.jquery.com/node/6222 > > cheers, > - ricardo > > On Apr 20, 9:26 pm, budduke <b...@budduke.com> wrote: > > > I looked through the board but can not find any info for what I am > > needing, > > for the persistant:location highlight, I need it to not look at the > > entire url string, just part of it. > > using php my links > > havehttp://www.myweb.com/good_link.php?location=here&page=5 > > the string should only be looking for everything before the & symbol. > > I can not figure out how to do this. > > I know it is all happening in the case area of the script but can not > > figure out how to filter out everything from the & to the end of the > > string to compare with the url. > > > thanks for any help you can send my way, > > Buddy Duke
