contains selector
Description: Select all elements that contain the specified text.
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version added: 1.1.4jQuery( ":contains(text)" )
text: A string of text to look for. It's case sensitive.
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 a bare word or surrounded by quotation marks. The text must have matching case to be selected.
Example:
Finds all divs containing "John" and underlines them.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>contains demo</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>John Resig</div>
<div>George Martin</div>
<div>Malcom John Sinclair</div>
<div>J. Ohn</div>
<script>
$( "div:contains('John')" ).css( "text-decoration", "underline" );
</script>
</body>
</html>