Question

window.something.updateStatus = function(theName) {
  $('#myTable').children('tr').remove(":contains('theName')");
};

Obviously the above does not work because it is looking for a string called “theName” in any in myTable.

What I’d like to do is pass in theName’s Value to the contains.

How do I evaluate this expression?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is untested, but should work:

window.something.updateStatus = function(theName) {
  $('#myTable').children('tr').remove(":contains('" + theName +"')");
};

Essentially it removes the variable theName from the string, but still quotes that value (once the variable’s interpolated), which is why there’s an opening, and closing, ' either side of the variable and + concatenation operators.