Find an element in DOM based on an attribute value

Question

Hi,

Can you please tell me if there is any DOM API which search for an element with given attribute name and attribute value:

Something like:

doc.findElementByAttribute("myAttribute", "aValue");

Thank you.

Answer 1

There's not a very short way to do this in vanilla javascript, but there are some solutions available.

You do something like this, looping through elements and checking the attribute

If a library like jQuery is an option, you can do it a bit easier, like this:

$("[myAttribute=value]")

You can also do start-with, ends-with, contains, etc...there are several options for the attribute selector.

Answer 2

Duplicate if you are looking for a Jquery Sol:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/696968/jquery-v1-3-2-find-element-by-attribute