Question

I need to get a tr element which contains a td element which contains specific text. The td will contain that text and only that text (so I need text = 'foo' not text contains 'foo' logic).

So I need the equivalent of the following ‘pseudo jQuery’:

var tableRow = $(table td[text = 'foo']).parent('tr');

Can anyone provide the correct syntax?

Answer 1

You can use filter() to do that:

var tableRow = $("td").filter(function() {
    return $(this).text() == "foo";
}).closest("tr");