:contains() Selector
Categories: Content Filter
jQuery(':contains(text)')
Description: Select all elements that contain the specified text.
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jQuery(':contains(text)')
version added: 1.0text A string of text to look for. It's case sensitive.
The matching text can appear directly within the selected element, in any of that element's descendants, or a combination thereof. As with attribute value selectors, text inside the parentheses of :contains()
can be written as bare words or surrounded by quotation marks. The text must have matching case to be selected.
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Finds all divs containing "John" and underlines them.
HTML:
<div>John Resig</div> <div>George Martin</div> <div>Malcom John Sinclair</div> <div>J. Ohn</div>
Code:
$("div:contains('John')").css("text-decoration", "underline");