[jQuery] Re: Testing the first character of an H1

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[jQuery] Re: Testing the first character of an H1

, index, match) { >     return ( new RegExp("^" + match[3]).test( elem.textContent || > elem.innerText || "" )); > > } > > To use, create a selector using that filter. > $("p:begins-with('someText')'') > > Hope that helps. > >

[jQuery] Testing the first character of an H1

Is there a way -- I've wracked my brains on this but I'm a jQuery novice -- to determine what the first letter of a selector is? For example, if the very first letter of a paragraph is a quote (or a ‘ , or a “ , etc) I would like to apply a negative text- indent to the found paragraph so as to re