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Asked: 2026-06-10T03:45:35+00:00

Supposing I had the following HTML: <html> <head> <title>My Test Page</title> </head> <body> I

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Supposing I had the following HTML:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>My Test Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        I liked the book <cite>Catcher In The Rye</cite>.
        I also liked the book <cite>The Great Gatsby</cite>.
    </body>
</html>

What I would like to know is if there is a way to select all the strings in between the <cite> and </cite> tags? What I am trying to do is add a css style to all text in between the cite tags. I know I could add a common class attribute to each one and select them using the class name, but there is a lot and I would hate to add it to each one. Does jQuery have a selector for cite tags?

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  1. Editorial Team

    $("cite") should get all instances.

    In jQuery, there are three main selectors:

    1. By tag name: $(“cite”)
    2. By class: $(“.someClass”)
    3. By ID: $(“#SomeID”)

    A good way to think of it is “how would I go about defining a CSS definition to style one or more elements”? Generally that answer will give you a good selector to use in jQuery.

    In your case, you could iterate over each CITE element and get the text/html like so:

    $("cite").each(function() {
  var theText = $(this).text();  // example to get text
  var theHtml = $(this).html();  // example to get html
  // do whatever you want with these values
});
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