How to use: contains (text) with any text using jQuery

Question

Using jQuery you can use:

$(":contains(hello)")

It will return any matching element containing the text "hello."

I want to be able to match any text, especially "hello :)".

$(":contains(hello :))") // Doesn't work
$(":contains('hello :)')") // Doesn't work
$(":contains('hello :\)')") // Doesn't work

How to find elements containing "hello :)" using jQuery?

Answer 1

See this answer for how to do this.

It basically includes .filterto get around a known bug:contains :

$('#demo').filter(function(i, el) {
    return !!$(el).text().match(/hello :\)/);
});

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Answer 2

: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/5482

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Answer 3

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$(":contains('hello \\:\\)')")

Answer 4

:

jQuery.fn.contains = function(re) {
  return this.filter(function(i, el) {
    return !$(el).text().match(RegExp(re));
  });
};

:

$("*").contains(":\\)") // returns all elements in the page that contains ':)'

Note. contains () accepts a regex (this means you need to avoid what you need to escape for regex)