Question

I’ve a bunch of divs with each div id starting with a common name and ending wiht a incremental number:

<div id="thisismydiv1"></div>
<div id="thisismydiv2"></div>
<div id="thisismydiv3"></div>
<div id="thisismydiv4"></div> 

How do I find out the latest number i.e. 4 using jQuery?

Answer 1

var token = "thisismydiv";
var id = $('div[id^="' + token + '"]').last().id;
id = id.replace(token, '');
alert(id);

Demo: jsFiddle