[jQuery] Re: find table rows that contains text

[Pierre Bellan]

Hi,
I think you must use the filter function.
I made this little test :

var mySearch = '63';
$('table tr:contains("'+mySearch+'")').filter(function(){
    if ($.trim($(this).text()) == mySearch ) {
        return true;
    }
    else{
        return false;
    }
});

The text() method removes all html tags, very useful here. The trim()
function was a jquery addon, very useful too

Pierre

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I am never wrong."

2008/11/25 Sridhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
> Hi,
>
>   I am trying to get a reference to a table row that contains an
> exact match of a text. But I am getting more than one row. can you
> please help me? Following is the html table structure and the jquery
> script.
> -- html
> <table>
>   <tr>
>       <td><a>063</a></td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>       <td><a>63</a></td>
>   </tr>
> </table>
>
> -- script
> var rows = $('table tr:contains(' + "'" + '63' + "'" + ')');
>
> as you can see, both the rows contain text 63. But I want to get the
> reference to second row since that contains the exact match. How would
> I do that?
>
> Thanks,
> sridhar.
>