Question

I have a table, where I have checkboxes like:

<input id="id_answer[text_singleline][0][1]" type="checkbox" value="1" name="answer[text_singleline][0][1]">

where the second index [0] is the row, third index [1] is the column. I need to select all checkboxes in a column, something like this:

$('#id_answer\\[text_singleline\\]\\[*\\]\\[0\\]')

Is it possible with jQuery?

Answer 1

If the solution of Frédéric does not work with your use case, you can always use the filter method:

$('input:[id*=id_answer\\[text_singleline\\]]').filter(function() {
    return /\[.+?\]\[0\]/.test(this.id);
}).each(function() {
    alert(this.id);
});​

Test it here: http://jsfiddle.net/SmU4z/

More info on the filter method can be found here: http://api.jquery.com/filter/