Question

I have an html page which has elements such as the following:

<input data-required-by="books magazines stationery">

What I’d like to do is select all elements in jQuery that have “books” in the ‘data-required-by’ field. I was hoping something such as the following would work:

$("[data-required-by]~='books'")

but it brings back “Syntax error, unrecognized expression: =’books'”

Admittedly my jQuery isn’t particularly advanced, so it’s possible I’ve missed something simple. Any suggestions appreciated

Answer 1

$("input[data-required-by~=books]")