Find contains value with quotes

Question

This is my HTML

<td class="ms-formbody" vAlign="top">
   <!--  FieldName="BP number"
             FieldInternalName="BP_x0020_number"
             FieldType="SPFieldText"
           -->
</td>

Now I want a selector thar find the td that contains a value like this: FieldInternalName="BP_x0020_number"

I am trying this... but it is not working

$( 'td:contains( "FieldInternalName="BP_x0020_number"" )' );

What am I doing wrong?

Is the actual content of your table cell contained within an HTML comment? — j08691, Sep 02 '14 at 14:23
@Benno Zeeman: Yes, but `contains` only works on text content (not comments) — iCollect.it Ltd, Sep 02 '14 at 14:25
Try this `$( 'td:contains( "FieldInternalName=\'BP_x0020_number\'" )' );` — bzeaman, Sep 02 '14 at 14:27
This Question maybe help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1623734/selecting-html-comments-with-jquery — Wilfredo P, Sep 02 '14 at 14:27

iCollect.it Ltd · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T14:36:50.313

In your example you needed to escape your inner double-quotes (as you had quotes within quotes within quotes), but the main thing is to use a filter based on the HTML content (contains only looks at the text content for a string match):

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3Ln92dv9/2/

$('td').filter(function(){
    return $(this).html().indexOf("FieldInternalName=\"BP_x0020_number\"") > 0;
});

You can just use single quotes in this format (no escaping needed):

$('td').filter(function(){
    return $(this).html().indexOf('FieldInternalName="BP_x0020_number"') > 0;
});

Find contains value with quotes

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