Jquery contains with class

Question

I am using jQuery: contains a selector for filtering through link tags. The following code works great.

$('a:contains("string")').each(function(i){
//do some stuff
});

I would only like to run this function if the anchor tags are inside a specific class, I've tried the following but it doesn't work:

$('.my_class a:contains("string")').each(function(i){
//do some stuff
});

+2

proee May 07 '10 at 16:44

4 answers

To select by class name, place period at the beginning:

$('.my_class a:contains("string")')

+3

nickf May 07 '10 at 16:46

Try this, with a dot at the beginning of the class name:

$('.my_class a:contains('string').each(function(i){
//do some stuff
});

+1

Justin ethier May 07 '10 at 16:46

<div class="GridCell">Click to review.</div>

if you need to get the above using jQuery use

$('div.GridCell:contains(Click to review.)')

+1

hasitha Jan 27. 12 at 15:18

Matt · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-07T16:52:06+0000

None of these will work. You have brackets and wrong quotes all over the store.

$('a:contains(string)').each(function(i){
    //do some stuff
});

and then

$('.my_class a:contains(string)').each(function(i){
    //do some stuff
});