How to use *= operator in jQuery attribute selector?

jQuery Web Development Front End Technology

The *= operator is used to filter elements for attribute containing the given value.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to *= operator to filter attributes on the basis of text:

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

   $( "div[myattr*='subject']" ).css("background-color", "yellow");
   
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<div myid="sub1" myattr="javasubject">Java</div>
<div myid="sub2" myattr="htmlsubject">HTML</div>
<div myid="sub3" myattr="ruby">Ruby</div>

</body>
</html>

Amit D

Updated on: 18-Dec-2019

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