Question

I’m in the need for a jquery selector to get all p elements that has some attribute set, no matter the value and no matter the attribute name.

XPath related expression is:

"//p[@*]"

Answer 1

If you’re saying that you want <p> elements that have at least one inline attribute set, you could do this:

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/ZRPv4/

var pWithAttrs = $('p').filter(function() {
    return this.attributes.length;
});

This will give you a set of <p> elements that have at least one inline attribute set.

It tests the length property of the attributes array associated with the current <p> in the iteration. If the length is 0, it will be removed from the result.

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Here’s a custom selector version:

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/ZRPv4/1/

$.extend($.expr[':'], {
   'hasAnAttr': function(elem, i, attr){      
     return elem.attributes.length;
   }
});

var pWithAttrs = $('p:hasAnAttr');