How to do Case insensitive selection in jQuery?

Question

I wanted to select all tags which points to an swf in jQuery. I wrote the following code and which works fine

$(a[href$=".swf"]).each( function(){
   alert('hello');
});

Now if i want to include SWF also for search, what is the best way?

[See this please](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/619621/how-do-i-use-jquery-to-ignore-case-when-selecting) — Sarfraz, Feb 05 '10 at 08:30

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-05T08:40:11.313

6

You may take a look at the filter function.

$('a').filter(function() {
    return (/\.swf$/i).test($(this).attr('href'));
}).each(function() {
    alert('hello');
});

edited Feb 05 '10 at 08:40

answered Feb 05 '10 at 08:29

Darin Dimitrov

+1, + maybe escape the dot. return (/\.swf$/i).test($(this).attr('href')); – Alex Feb 05 '10 at 08:37
Hey it worked.. cool... I Made it something like this $('a').filter(function() { var regexpr = /\.SWF$|\.PDF/i; if((regexpr).test($(this).attr('href'))) { alert($(this).attr('href')); } }); – Amit Feb 05 '10 at 09:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '10 at 08:34

1

For such a basic case, why not just do something like:

$('a[href$=".swf"], a[href$=".SWF"]').each( function(){
   alert('hello');
});

In general though, Darin has pointed you in the right direction.

answered Feb 05 '10 at 08:34

No Surprises

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 05 '10 at 08:33

0

If you are interested in .swf and .SWF, you can use this:

$('a[href$=".swf"], a[href$=".SWF"]').each( function(){
   alert('hello');
});

answered Feb 05 '10 at 08:33

Fenton

3 Answers3