Question

There is a selector in jQuery – :contains

Example:

str = 'test';
blocked_div = $(".mydiv:contains("+str+")");
blocked_div.find('img').hide();
...
<a href="http://example.com">test</a>
...

As I understand it’s search for a “test” text inside a “.mydiv” element.
But now i need to find a link “http://example.com” inside a “.mydiv” element, and :contains dont work in this situation. Can you recommend a solution to do this ?

Answer 1

Did you mean:

$(".mydiv a[href='example.com']");

You can also use *= or ^= filters to find links which contain specified text anywhere or at start of string respectively.

// find links containing "example" in href at any place
$(".mydiv a[href*='example']");

For your str variable, you can modify it like:

$('.mydiv a[href=' + str + ']'); // exact match
$('.mydiv a[href*=' + str + ']'); // contains str anywhere in href