jquery - How to get all the links of a list inside a div?

Question

I have a code with the following DOM Tree:

<div id="blogPagination">
    <div class="pagination">
        <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="/2" >1</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="/3" >2</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

I'm trying to reach the href of my tag. I can't reach it with anything I tried.

What's the best way to reach it with jQuery ?

I tried:

console.log($('#blogPagination div ul > li a ').attr("href"));

console.log($('#blogPagination > a ').attr("href"));

$('#blogPagination').children('a')

console.log($('#blogPagination div ul li a').attr("href"));

without luck ..

Thanks

EDIT:

After nbrooks's answer, here is what I tried so far:

function bindPagination() {
    
    console.log("bind");

    $(function() {
        var links = $("#blogPagination ul a").map(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
            return this.href;
        }).get();
        console.log(links);
});

EDIT 2 :

Considering Syfaro's answer, I've also tried :

$('#blogPagination').find('a').each(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    console.log($(this).attr('href'));
});

Without luck.

EDIT 3 : I'd like to give more details concerning this function that may have a significant impact after all:

to load this pagination, I'm using Ajax and handlebars wrapped into a document ready function:

$(document).ready(function(){
    
    // Get the customer service stats
    var Content = {

    init: function() {

            /* this.getHomePosts(); */
            this.getBlogPosts();
        },

    getBlogPosts: function(offset) {
        if(offset == undefined){
            offset = 0;
        }
        // GET the events with JSON
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            data: {},
            url: site_url+"/main/blog/"+offset,
            dataType: "json",
            success: function(results) {
                posts = results["posts"].map(function (blogContent) {
                    if( blogContent.picture != '' ) {
                        return {
                            Title: blogContent.title ,
                            Picture: Content.urlPostPic + blogContent.picture ,
                            Video: '' ,
                            Text: blogContent.text ,
                            Datetime: blogContent.datetime ,
                        }
                    } else {
                        return {
                            Title: blogContent.title ,
                            Picture: '' ,
                            Video: blogContent.video ,
                            Text: blogContent.text ,
                            Datetime: blogContent.datetime ,
                        }
                    }
                });

                pagination = {pagination: results["pagination"]};

                var template = Handlebars.compile( $('#templateBlog').html() );
                $('#blogPosts').append( template(posts) );

                var template = Handlebars.compile( $('#templatePagi').html() );
                $('#blogPagination').append( template(pagination) );
                                    // Here we call bindPagination <===
                bindPagination();
            }
        });
    },

};

Content.init();

You can see in the get BlogPosts function that I call BindPagination which is supposed to be this function, to prevent default behavior and call the content depending of the offset (pagination system)

function bindPagination() {
    
    console.log("bind");

    
    var links = $("#blogPagination ul a").map(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        return this.href;
    }).get();
    console.log(links);

    $('#blogPagination').find('a').each(function(e) {
        console.log("clicked !");
        e.preventDefault();
        console.log($(this).attr('href'));

     //    var attr = this.attr();
        // var id = attr.replace("/","");

        // $('#blogPosts').empty();
        // $('#blogPagination').empty();
        // Content.getBlogPosts(id);
    });
}
});

the last }); stand for the end of the document ready.

Answer 1

$('#blogPagination').find('a').attr('href');

This should find all a elements in the specified area, the get the href of them, assuming that you've already got jQuery and all that good stuff set up.

If you have multiple a elements, you could do something like this:

$('#blogPagination').find('a').each(function() {
    console.log($(this).attr('href'));
});

This will print out each href of each a in that div.

If you need to prevent the link from changing the page, you need to add a click handler to the a elements.

$('#blogPagination').on('click', 'a', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    console.log($(this).attr('href'));
});

This will prevent the user from being taken to the link, and get the href of the link when clicked.

Is this what you want?