How to read URL/Description from a Hyperlink field using CSOM

Question

Using CSOM (JavaScript) how do you get the URL and description fields from a Hyperlink field?

Answer 1

Here is the working code:

var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var myListItem = context.get_web().get_lists().getByTitle("ListName").getItemById(1);
context.load(myListItem);

context.executeQueryAsync(function(){

alert(myListItem.get_item("HyperLinkFieldName").get_description());
alert(myListItem.get_item("HyperLinkFieldName").get_url());

},function(sender,args){alert(args.get_message());});