JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Ehsan Sajjad

HTML

<a href="#oldLink" id="link">link</a>

JavaScript

$(function () {

    $("#link").on("click", function (e) {

        if ($(this).attr('href') === '#oldLink') // check if it is old link
        {

            e.preventDefault(); //stop default behaviour

            $(this).attr("href", "#newLink"); // change link href

            $(this).trigger("click"); // click link programmatically

        }
    });

});