Question

I have a bunch of input elements that have a particular substring in their IDs. Using javascript, is there a way to get these elements as an array? I wouldn’t know the full ID – only the substring.

Is this any simpler if I use JQuery?

Answer 1

Quite easy with jQuery. Example:

$('li[id^='comment']')  

Select all ‘li’ where id starts with ‘comment’.

EDIT

To get those into an array:

var myArray = new Array;  $('li[id^='comment']').each(function() {     var thisId = $(this).attr('id');     myArray.push(thisId); });