[jQuery] Re: How to find elements with an exact text content?

[Renato Formato]

Nicolas Hoizey ha scritto:
Hi,
I'm currently using :contains() to find elements that contain some  
string:

<http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing#contains.28_str_.29>

I would like now to find only elements that have a text content  
exactly equal to the string I chose.

I didn't find any simple solution in the list archives or in any  
documentation.

Thanks.


-Nicolas

Hi,
you can create a new selector to match text content with regular 
expressions:

jQuery.expr[":"].containsRegEx =
"(a.textContent||a.innerText||'').match(eval('/'+m[3]+'/'))!=null";

and

$('a:containsRegEx(^my text$)')

It's a very simple code that does not escape the special regex characters.

I hope it helps

Ciao
Renato