Jquery – Wildcards in jQuery selectors

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I'm trying to use a wildcard to get the id of all the elements whose id begin with "jander". I tried $('#jander*'), $('#jander%') but it doesn't work..

I know I can use classes of the elements to solve it, but it is also possible using wildcards??

<script type="text/javascript">

  var prueba = [];

  $('#jander').each(function () {
    prueba.push($(this).attr('id'));
  });

  alert(prueba);


});

</script>

<div id="jander1"></div>
<div id="jander2"></div>

Best Answer

To get all the elements starting with "jander" you should use:

$("[id^=jander]")

To get those that end with "jander"

$("[id$=jander]")

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