Question

$('select').change(function() {
   //important stuff
});

Before doing important stuff I want to verify the selector in question by its ID. All of the IDs I want to affect end with _stat. How would you do this with a regular expression (or something else) in JQuery?

$('select').change(function() {
   if ($("select[id*='_stat']")) {  //<~ this aint work
   //important stuff
   }
});

Answer 1

You can do this with if ($(this).is("select[id$='_stat']")), but it would surely be better to attach the event handler to these elements only in the first place — then you wouldn’t have to check at all:

$("select[id$='_stat']").change(function() {
   //important stuff
});