[jQuery] Re: using :contains() selector with $(this)

2007-12-13 Thread Van
Wizzud, Thank you for the great response... $('ul.list a:contains(' + toMatch+ ')') .each(function(){ }); fits what I am doing perfectly. I was so close in my attempts but never could get the syntax exactly correct with contains. Your post helped very much. Thank you On Dec 13, 2:5

[jQuery] Re: using :contains() selector with $(this)

2007-12-13 Thread Wizzud
As with anything else there are a number of ways of going about this, and which one you use depends a lot on what you want to do with the result. One thing to point out with your $(this:contains(...)) example is that 'this' is usually an object variable and ':contains(...)' is a string and you can