Oh silly me, thanks Klaus, excellent suggestion. That should cover most situations. Much simpler than fiddling with regex, and easier for others to follow! Cheers, George
Klaus Hartl wrote: > > George Adamson schrieb: >> Just discovered that simple wildcards can be used *without* modifying >> jquery >> code (phew), by using \\S* in the selector syntax... >> >> Can be done like this: $("INPUT.myClass\\S*") will match .myClass1 and >> .myClassHello etc. >> >> This only works where selector searches in the jquery code rely on a >> regex, >> but it may be ok for some people. >> >> Just another 2cents worth... >> George > > > George, couldn't you use the CSS 3 substring selector? > > var $$ = $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"myClass"); > > If the class name always starts with "myClass" you could also use > > var $$ = $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"myClass"); > > > -- Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Enabling-wildcards-in-.className-selector-tf3220488.html#a8945182 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/