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How can I tell whether an element matches a selector?

I’ve been using jQuery for this javascript framework I’ve been working on and I was wondering if there is a way of checking if a given selector matches a given jQuery object. Something like:

var divObj = $(document.createElement('div'));
var result = divObj.hasSelector('div');

Result would either return a “true” or the object back if the selector matches the object.

Answer 1

You can tell if an object is a div using:

$('selector').is('div');

Or for a direct comparison:

$('selector1')[0].tagName == $('selector2')[0].tagName