Making partial matches with jQuery?

Question

I want to find all input boxes with id containing _date

My code is like this:

<input type="text" name="creation_date" id="id_creation_date" />

Can I use regex for that? Do I need to install something extra for regex to work with jQuery?

I don think you can directly do that way. What I think you can do is . get all the input using $('input') and then filtering out using a regex and $(this).attr('id') — Gaurav Shah, Jun 27 '11 at 05:37
possible duplicate of [JQuery selector regular expressions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190253/jquery-selector-regular-expressions) — Mat, Jun 27 '11 at 05:40
Its better to have this link [http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/](http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/) — Bharat Patil, Jun 27 '11 at 05:47

score 59 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '11 at 05:40

59

I'm thinking of one of these...

$('input[id*="_date"]').css('background-color', 'red');

answered Jun 27 '11 at 05:40

jerluc

thanks buddy that is working , but will it work on all browsers like ie7 – Mirage Jun 27 '11 at 05:46
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Yes it will, as jquery is taking care of cross browser compatibility. – Bharat Patil Jun 27 '11 at 05:47
It should, as far as I know, even though it uses CSS3-like selectors, it breaks down to this line as I see it in the jQuery source code: `f==="*="?e.indexOf(g)>=0:f==="~=`... meaning it's literally doing a simple (cross-browser) indexOf() check on the specified attribute. – jerluc Jun 27 '11 at 05:49
This is beautiful :) – VoA Mar 07 '17 at 20:00

score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '11 at 05:51

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If you just want to check ending with "_date" rather than containing "_date" you can use

$('input[id$="_date"]')

answered Jun 27 '11 at 05:51

Bharat Patil

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