Question

I have an if statement and for some reason I cant seem to get it to work, Can anybody see why?

http://jsfiddle.net/7YKgS/1/

I have a span tag that contains a string and im trying ot say if this string == X then do this, if not do something else.

Answer 1

if ($('span.errorp:contains("323ou")').length > 0) {
    //found at least one that contains the text
    alert('hi');
} else {
    alert('working');
}

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/7YKgS/4/