Question

question really says it all,

if have an element

<span class="a-class another-class test-top-left"></span>

how can i get the classname, beginning with “test-” into a string variable so i can then extract the top and left words from that classname into separate variables and use them.

Answer 1

var test = (​$("span[class*='test-']")[0].className​​).split("test-")​[1].split("-");

Where test[0] will contain “top” and test[1] will contain “left”.

Here’s the working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/kayen/QJCpc/