On Sep 19, 4:34 am, Pluthos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to write something like
> $(/(id.*name)/) to be able to capture id_A_name, id_B_name and
> id_C_name, or some other convenient form of using *, ^ and $.
>
> Would regular expressions work as arguments to $() ? Is there any way
> of doing this?
jQ doesn't (currently) support regexes as an argument to $(), but i
believe you can get the effect you're looking for by using filter() in
conjunction with regexes. Something along the lines of...
$("E[id^='id_']").filter(...)
http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/filter#expr
http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/filter#fn
Using the first form, i think you could probably get away with
something like:
$("E[id^='id_']").filter("[id$='_name']")
(untested)
