So I am working on something that wasn't well thought out in the build from the backend team. That leaves me with a document full of divs.
What I am doing is rolling back from the element I need to click on, get the parent container then find an element within the parent which has class="alert-box warn"
, class="alert-box dead"
, etc... Essentially, I'm trying to use multiple class selectors on each element. When I try to find just alert-box
it doesn't seem to be working right. I'm assuming because it has warn,
dead, ``fine, etc...
How can I find just alert-box*
or equivalent to a wildcard concept?
You can combine selectors like this
$(".alert-box.warn, .alert-box.dead");
Or if you want a wildcard use the attribute-contains selector
$("[class*='alert-box']");
Note: Preferably you would know the element type or tag when using the selectors above. Knowing the tag can make the selector more efficient.
$("div.alert-box.warn, div.alert-box.dead");
$("div[class*='alert-box']");
You can select elements with multiple classes like so:
$("element.firstClass.anotherClass");
Simply chain the next class onto the first one, without a space (spaces mean "children of").
var divs = $("div[class*='alert-box']");
An element can have any number of classNames, however, it can only have one class attribute; only the first one will be read by jQuery.
Using the code you posted, $(".alert-box.warn")
will work but $(".alert-box.dead")
will not.
you are looking for http://api.jquery.com/hasClass/
<div id="mydiv" class="foo bar"></div>
$('#mydiv').hasClass('foo') //returns ture