How Can I Use Wildcards or Regular Expressions in jQuery Attribute Filters?

Wildcard and Regular Expressions in jQuery Selectors

Question:

How does one utilize wildcard or regular expressions in jQuery attribute filters for attribute value patterns?

Answer:

jQuery provides a powerful filter function for intricate regular expression matching. Here's an example that matches the first three divs:

  .filter(function() {</p><pre class="brush:php;toolbar:false">return this.id.match(/abc+d/);

})
.html("Matched!");

This regex (abc d) expresses the pattern:

• Start with the characters "a", "b", and "c".
• Followed by one or more repetitions of the character "c".
• Ending with the character "d".

As a result, the first three divs, with IDs "abcd", "abccd", and "abcccd", match this regex and their HTML is updated to "Matched!". The fourth and fifth divs, with IDs "abd" and an empty string (""), respectively, do not match the regex and remain unchanged.

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