Jquery select all elements in regex

JavaScript
1

Hello forums

In JQuery how do you select all elements using regex.
I have this markup

<span id="td_12345">something</span>
<span id="td_12343">something</span>
<span id="td_123345">something</span>
<span id="td_1255">something</span>

How do I select all id’s starting with td_

Thanks.

2

I think you need the attribute-contains-selector: Attribute Contains Selector [name*=“value”] – jQuery API


$('span[id*="td_"]')
3

Wow thats easier than a regex solution. Thanks

4

If you want to ensure that it doesn’t accidentally match with something in the middle of the name, you can use the attribute-starts-with selector instead:

$(‘span[id^=“td_”]’)

It also makes things easier for you or others who come back to the code, because you can tell immediately what the code is expected to achieve.

5

Ooh, even better! Hadn’t seen that one. jQuery is amazing (hope DS60 doesn’t read this :wink: )