Question

I would like to select only one class from severals with the condition that the selected class has any div-descendant with the id "#exampleId".

I thought something like this could work, but it didn’t:

$(".myClass").has(div).attr("id","#exampleId").

The second problem: I have to get rid first of the hash “#”.
because the String (#exampleId) has been generated dynamically…
It looks something like this:

var myString = "#exampleId"  

And the following approach didn’t work:

myString.replace('#','');

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You could just pass the ID in the selector for has(). No need to remove the # either.

$(".myClass").has("div#exampleId")

Or even do it in one selector:

$(".myClass:has(div#exampleId)")