I was wondering if it was possible to find a label (or any element, really) by it's inner text. For example:
<label for="myCheckbox">SuperSweetCheckbox</label>
And I want to find it by the text SuperSweetCheckbox
.
I know this seems kind of counter-intuitive, but due to the nature of the app I'm working on it seems to be necessary. I realize that I can iterate through each of the labels but I'd prefer to avoid that option if at all possible.
If anyone could provide some assistance, I'd appreciate it.
use the selector :contains()
var element = $("label:contains('SuperSweetCheckbox')");
The matching text can appear directly within the selected element, in any of that element's descendants, or a combination thereof. As with attribute value selectors, text inside the parentheses of :contains()
can be written as bare words or surrounded by quotation marks. The text must have matching case to be selected.
Maybe
$('label[value|="SuperSweetCheckbox"]')
according to:
http://api.jquery.com/attribute-contains-prefix-selector/
or
$("label:contains('SuperSweet')")
according to
http://api.jquery.com/contains-selector/
This builds on Caspar's answer, but was too big for comments.
I thought it could be useful for others.
I used Caspar's solution but found that an empty string ""
is considered to exist in any string, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18399216/1063287.
In my situation SuperSweetCheckbox
is a dynamic value and sometimes an empty string, in which case I don't want any matching logic to occur.
Creating a pseudo function using match()
seems to work, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18462522/1063287.
You can also use filter()
, see:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15364327/1063287).
Below is an example of the three variants - :contains()
, filter()
and a custom function:
jsFiddle
jsFiddle link
jQuery
var myString = "Test";
//var myString = "";
// 01. :contains() - matches empty string as well
$("ul li > label:contains(" + myString + ")").closest("li").addClass("matched").siblings("li").addClass("notmatched");
// 02. filter()
$("ul li > label").filter(function() {
return $(this).text() === myString;
}).closest("li").addClass("matched").siblings("li").addClass("notmatched");
// 03. custom function
$.expr[':'].textEquals = $.expr.createPseudo(function(arg) {
return function( elem ) {
return $(elem).text().match("^" + arg + "$");
};
});
$("ul li > label:textEquals(" + myString + ")").closest("li").addClass("matched").siblings("li").addClass("notmatched");
HTML
<ul>
<li>
<label>Test</label>
</li>
<li>Oh Nu</li>
</ul>
CSS
.matched {
background: yellow
}
.notmatched {
background: aqua;
}
I think the :contains()
selector is what you are looking for. Check samples here > http://api.jquery.com/contains-selector/
All the Above specified is very exclusive, but try out this too, if its not working let me know.
VAR $YesitHas=$("lable").innerText("SuperSweetCheckBox");