Question

I need to hide a div that has a certain string in it, using contains.. but jQuery is hiding all div’s that are parents of the target div too !

 $("div:contains('user_notifications')").css("display","none") 

how do I tell jQuery to just match the div that actually contains that string?

Thanks

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Edit:

here’s the inner div that contains the string I want to match..

<div class="group" style="display: block;">

 <input type="hidden" value="0" name="user[notification_options[new_reply]]" style="display: block;">

 <input type="checkbox" value="1" name="user[notification_options[new_reply]]" id="user_notification_options[new_reply]" checked="checked" style="display: block;">

 Request help from system admin

 </div>

Answer 1

Assuming the div doesn’t have divs that are siblings to the text, you can do this:

$("div:contains('user_notifications'):not(:has(div))").hide();

This uses :not() to get the opposite of :has() to only select <div> elements that don’t contain other <div> elements, eliminating the parents. Also I’m using .hide() here as a simpler display: none;, in case you want to show it later.