Javascript variable access in HTML

Try this :

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function () {
            var simpleText = "hello_world";
            var finalSplitText = simpleText.split("_");
            var splitText = finalSplitText[0];
            $("#target").text(splitText);
        });
</script>

<body>
<a id="target" href = test.html></a>
</body>
</html>

<html>
<script>
var simpleText = "hello_world";
var finalSplitText = simpleText.split("_");
var splitText = finalSplitText[0];

window.onload = function() {
       //when the document is finished loading, replace everything
       //between the <a ...> </a> tags with the value of splitText
   document.getElementById("myLink").innerHTML=splitText;
} 

</script>

<body>
<a id="myLink" href = test.html></a>
</body>
</html>

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Javascript