Question

<div>
    <a>
       Text1
       <img alt="" stc="" />
    </a>
    <a>
       Text2
    </a>
 </div>

I want to select all anchor elements that have text=text2. I’m looking for something like this:

$('a[text=Text2]')

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Edit: Why this is not working? For some some reason, it needs to be in this format:

$('div').find('a').find(':contains("Text2")')

Answer 1

You ask why this doesn’t work:

$('div').find('a').find(':contains("Text2")')

The reason is, .find() will search children elements, you want .filter() (because you already selected the a – or you add the :contains to the a find:

$('div').find('a').filter(':contains("Text2")');
$('div').find('a:contains("Text2")');