How to check that an anchor with specific text exist?

Question

I want to check the existence of this element on my html page

<a  ...>Intranet XXX Portal</a>

Via the console, I see that my element is there :

> $('a').text == "Intranet XXX Portal"
< true

But what I need is a selector where I can test the existence of the element via ".length > 0"

When I do the following, I always get an empty result.

> $('a[text="Intranet XXX Portal"]')
> $('a[innertext="Intranet XXX Portal"]')
> $('a[content="Intranet XXX Portal"]')
< []

What selector will return me a $('a???).length > 0 ?

REM: For this particular page, $ refers to the browser jQuery.

Why don't you assign a class to that element ? So you can grab it easily with $ after that — DevMoutarde, Oct 15 '18 at 19:03
Possible duplicate of [jQuery: find element by text](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7321896/jquery-find-element-by-text) — Turnip, Oct 16 '18 at 08:34

DevMoutarde · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-16T08:41:54.233

0

You can check the existence of that element by doing

if ($('a').html('Intranet XXX Portal').length > 0) {
    console.log(true)
}
else {
    console.log(false)
}

Hope it helps.

edited Oct 16 '18 at 08:41

answered Oct 16 '18 at 08:28

DevMoutarde

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