Javascript / jQuery get first class name of element

February 16th, 2012 • 2 comments javascript, jQuery, snippets

Need to get the first class name of an element? Simple! Imagine having a link with 3 class names

<a id="myelement" href="http://google.com" class="class1 class2 class3">Go to google</a>



$('a#myelement').attr('class').split(' ')[0]


Will result in: class1