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user829174
user829174

Reputation: 6362

How to find existence of some value in DOM using JQuery

How can i iterate the following DOM and to find if some li has the value of Value2 is here

i would like to have some boolean function such as

var v = IsValueExist('Value2 is here')

<div class="span6">
    <ol id="sortable1" class="rectangle-list">
        <li><a href="#">Value1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Value2 is here</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Value3 is here</a></li>
    </ol>
</div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (2)

Viktor S.
Viktor S.

Reputation: 12815

Take a look at contains selector: http://api.jquery.com/contains-selector/ But it will return both <a href="#">Value2 is here</a> and <a href="#">Value2 is here again</a>

As an alternative, you may do next:

var lis = $("#sortable1 li").filter(function(index){ $(this).text() == "some text"});
if(lis.length > 0) {
  //sortable1  contains an element with "some text" inside
}

http://api.jquery.com/filter/

Upvotes: 0

Sudhir Bastakoti
Sudhir Bastakoti

Reputation: 100205

you mean something like:

if ($('#sortable1 > li:contains("Value2 is here")').length > 0) {
  //found
}

Upvotes: 1

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