[jQuery] Re: this:contains selector

[Josh Nathanson]

Or the underutilized second argument of jQuery, the context:

$(":contains('whatever')", this)

-- Josh


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Glen Lipka 
  To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:49 AM
  Subject: [jQuery] Re: this:contains selector


  Something like this might work...not tested.
  $(this).is(":contains(matchingText)") 

  Glen


  On Dec 12, 2007 4:55 PM, Van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


    The contains selector works fine with tags (a:contains()) etc. but
    doesn't seem to work with $(this).  What is the best way to use
    contains with "this"??

    here is my scenario:
    var matchingText = "Text2"; 

    <ul class="list">
    <li><a href="#">Text1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Text2</a></li>
    </ul>

    I want to see if the text in matchingText matches text in any of the 
    anchor tags.  My goal is to add a class to the anchor tag that has
    matching text and would like to use the ul.list selector to run
    through each of the n amount of anchor tags (descendants of ul class
    "list") 

    I've tried selecting them in-line, or with a .each() loop and each
    time I cant seem to match using jQuery syntax...

    Thanks for the help.