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Find html element which id starts with ...

Answer 1

+5 A:

Give that element a common class name or some other attribute you can query for.

Yuriy Faktorovich 2010-02-19 18:44:50

Hi, thanks for your answer, the problem with your suggestion is that there might be multiple tables holding JQgrid, so there could be: "LIST_customer", "LIST_carrier"... and so on. And I need to select both of them basen only on the initial ID part: "LIST_".

lidermin 2010-02-19 18:49:39

I understand, but making them all a List class seems like a more readable and descriptive approach to me. To each his own, you could always use the starts with selector in jquery as shown by other answers.

Yuriy Faktorovich 2010-02-19 18:50:48

@lidermin What Yuriy says should work. Why dont you add a class to your controls such as "list" since you have list_ as your prefix. so when you select that class it will get each of those controls. This will be the most efficient way of doing it.

jmein 2010-02-19 18:51:28

Yuriy's answer will work. You can add the same class (for example "ListsINeedToFind") to all your "LIST_XXXX" elements, and then look them up using `$('.ListsINeedToFind')`.

Annabelle 2010-02-19 18:54:04

Answer 2

+2 A:

You need to use the attribute starts with selector, like this:

$('[id^=list_]').whatever()

SLaks 2010-02-19 18:48:51

Answer 3

+7 A:

Try

$('div[id^="list_"]')

A useful reference (although a bit dated now) for JQuery is at VisualJQuery

Glen Little 2010-02-19 18:48:58

Much better layout on that reference than the jquery documentation.

Yuriy Faktorovich 2010-02-19 18:53:57

Answer 4

+1 A:

Use the "attribute starts with" selector http://api.jquery.com/attribute-starts-with-selector/

$("[id^=list_]")

Be aware that this is inefficient. Prefix with the tag name and descend from the nearest parent if possible.

Chetan Sastry 2010-02-19 18:51:00

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