Question

I need to find the id of a div that starts with chart using wildcard:

So, given the following DOM

<div id="box5" class="box-container">
    <div class="inner-box wide">
        <div class="top-box handle">Some content</div>
        <div class="chart"><div id="chart1_div">A chart</div></div>
    </div>
</div>

My guess was.

 var $elementToFind = $("[id^=chart]");
 var found = $('div#box5').find($elementToFind).attr('id');
 alert(found);

But doesn’t seem to work.

Thanks for the help,

Answer 1

var found = $('div#box5').find("[id^=chart]").attr('id');
alert(found);

should work.