How do we use wildcard or regular expressions with a jQuery selector?


Wildcard or regular expressions can also be used with jQuery selector for id of element.

Example

You can try to run the following code to use wildcard or regular expressions with jQuery selector:

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){

   $("[id^=sub]").css("background-color", "green");

});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div id="sub1" myattr=".javasubject">Java</div>
<div id="sub2" myattr=".htmlsubject">HTML</div>
<div id="myid" myattr="rubysubject">Ruby</div>

</body>
</html>

Updated on: 18-Dec-2019

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