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Asked: 2026-05-20T05:12:09+00:00

I have a table of form elements where each row represents a record and

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I have a table of form elements where each row represents a record and column represents a field. I need to select all form elements in a given column.

Form elements in the same column have the same name format. For example, form elements that represent a location would have a name in the format record*.location, where * is an index.

Is it possible to select them with a single jQuery selection? If so, how does it compare to doing document.getElementById() on each one of them in a loop, performance wise?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use jQuery’s custom selector creation, $.expr. I have an example for you at http://jsfiddle.net/ygSAy/

    You’ll want to limit use of it to specific contexts unless you really work to make the filter function super efficient.

    Edit: a commented and slightly better performant version: http://jsfiddle.net/ygSAy/2/

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