Masking Affiliate Links With jQuery

You can mask affiliate links using this so that the url appears to be different than what it actually is.

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$(function(){
	$('a.affLink').mouseover(function(){
		window.status=this.title;
		return true;
	}).mouseout(function(){
		window.status='Done';return true;
	});
});

Levels: Syntax: jQuery Posted by: Jared

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Adam W. Warner February 14

This looks to be a very useful function, but it's not clear how one would use it to hide links. Would have to give each link a class of "afflink" when inserting into a post/page?
Jared February 14

Yeah, you could do a few other things though if you added some code to this. For example use a regex to find urls that have a certain domain, or query string in them, then use this snippet on those urls.
Adam W. Warner February 14

Very cool, thanks for the clarification and additional options. Most appreciated:)