Hi Julijan,
It sounds like what you need is a ":text-equals" filter The reason
":contains" fails in this case is because it does a global match. By
anchoring the same RegExp against the beginning and end of the string,
you should be able to select elements whose text matches exactly:
// Existing "contains" filter
function (a, i, m) {
return (a.textContent || a.innerText || jQuery(a).text() ||
"").indexOf(m[3]) >= 0;
}
// New ":text-equals" filter
function (a, i, m) {
return new RegExp("^" + m[3] + "$").text(a.textContent ||
a.innerText || jQuery(a).text() || "");
}
NOTE: I haven't tested this code, but the idea itself is simple...
instead of searching for a given string anywhere in the element's text
content, anchor the RegExp to begin searching at the beginning of the
element's text and match exactly through the end of the element's
text. Hope that helps.
On Oct 5, 4:20 am, "ryan.j" <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> sounds like you want to .filter() the results, but that will still
> iterate. the thing is anything that grabs a bunch of elements and
> picks certain ones out is going to loop through them at some point.
>
> if you wanted to do it entirely via selectors (and depending on
> whether there is a appropriate attribute for that sort of thing in the
> element you select) i guess you could use [attribute=xyz].
>
> On Oct 5, 9:20 am, Julijan Andjelic <julijan.andje...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way (selector) that would allow me to select an element by
> > exact mach of containing text.
>
> > example:
>
> > <div>
> > This is some text
> > </div>
>
> > <div>
> > This
> > </div>
>
> > Lets say i want to select only the second div
> > $("div:contains('This')")...
> > okay, it would select it, but...it would also select the first one.
> > I could iterate through each div and check if the text is matching but
> > that's kinda dirty way of doing this. Is there any selector which
> > would allow me to do this without iteration?
