Question

I have a number of elements on my page that have a lang attribute. How do I select only the elements with a lang attribute?

i.e.

<div lang="english">Test</div>
<span lang="english">is cool</span>
<span lang="anotherlanguage">is also good</span>

Answer 1

You need to use attribute selector.

Live Demo

var res = $('[lang=english]')

You can iterate through each item use each()

$('[lang=english]').each(function () {
   alert($(this).text());
});