Getting all mailto links with jQuery

Question

I need a pattern that will traverse the document and get me all links that have mailto in their href:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">text</a>

I could of course easily get all a elements ($("a")) and check each href attribute to see if it points to a mailto but I think that jQuery has some form of pattern matching that will allow me to do just that.

What is the best way to achieve that?

Answer 1

$('a[href^=mailto:]')