How to get className after creating jQuery variable

Question

I would like to set a jQuery variable, then target a className by doing something like this:

var chosen_language = '#English';

if (this.className == chosen_language) {
    blah blah blah;
}

But the above does not seem to work because I have 3 separate classes here. The HTML looks something like this below:

<a id="English" class"English nturl en" href="#">English</a>

How can I target ONLY the 3rd class (i.e. en), using the exact example that I have above?

Class Names don't start with English... See my answer bellow — Bellash
– Bellash, Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 23:09

tymeJV · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-12 23:04:29Z

4

With jQuery :

if ($(this).hasClass(chosen_language)) { };

edited Nov 12, 2013 at 23:04

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answered Nov 12, 2013 at 23:03

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Rob Myrick Over a year ago

I'm trying to target only class en, how would I be able to do that?

Langel Over a year ago

if ($(this).hasClass('en')) { };

Rob Myrick Over a year ago

Yep, that worked. I'm having an off day - so easy. Thank you!

Rob Myrick Over a year ago

one question: I should have asked how to get the name of the 3rd class, based on the ID of #English. #English will always be changing, so I cannot use en because it needs to be variable. How can I dynamically get classname of en?

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