Question

In an HTML I created a “div” with an unique id. Within this “div” I have more “div”s, in which each contains a string. For example:

<div id="name">
  <div>A</div>
  <div>B</div>
</div>

What I want to do is to find the index of a “div” that contains a string, say “A”, within the “div” with id=”name”.

I think selector “:contains” should be used in combination with .index() but I can’t figure out the right syntax. This is what I’ve tried:

var index = $("#name"):contains(A).index("div");

Answer 1

try this

var index = $("#name>div:contains(A)").eq(0).index();

http://jsfiddle.net/GhPxD/1/