Question

I’d like to retrieve all elements which start with a specific ID. After a short search, the solution appeared to be:

$('*[id^="foo_"]')

to select all elements with an ID starting with foo_. Although this selector syntax is very logical, I was just wondering whether it is possible to do this in a more ‘shorthand’ way, like:

$('#foo_*');

This did not work, however. Is there support for wildcarting like this?

Answer 1

As far as I know, there’s no native way to do this.

However, here is a filter that allows regular expressions to be used for selectors. It should suit you just fine.