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Mdd
Mdd

Reputation: 4430

Loop through elements to find specific ID

Any number of elements can exist, with the following ID.

<div id="my-div-1">Title 1</div>
<div id="my-div-2">Title 2</div>
<div id="my-div-3">Title 3</div>
<div id="my-div-4">Title 4</div>

I would like to loop through those elements to see if the number at the end of the ID matches the number in a variable.

This is what I have so far thought it does not work:

var myNum = 3
var findNum = /[\d]+/;
var findElement = document.getElementById('my-div-' + findNum);
for(i=0; i<findElement; i++) {
    if (myNum = findNum) {
        console.log('Success! myNum = ' + myNum + 
                    ' and findNum = ' + findNum +
                    ' and findElement = ' + findElement);
    }
    else {
        console.log('Fail! myNum = ' + myNum + 
                    ' and findNum = ' + findNum + 
                    ' and findElement = ' + findElement);
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7481

Answers (5)

Maloric
Maloric

Reputation: 5625

You can reference the element directly like so:

Non jQuery method:

var myNum = 3;
var el = document.getElementById('my-div-' + myNum);
if (!el) {
    alert("Fail");
} else {
    alert("Success");
}

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/EtZxh/4/

jQuery Method:

If you want to use jQuery simply replace with the following:

var myNum = 5;
var el = $('#my-div-' + myNum);
if (el.size() == 0) {
    alert("Fail");
} else {
    alert("Success");
}

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/EtZxh/

Upvotes: 4

Adil Shaikh
Adil Shaikh

Reputation: 44740

You can do something like this in jQuery

var num = 3;
$("div[id^='my-div-']").each(function(){
    var id = this.id;
    if(id.slice(-1) === num){
        alert("Success: " +id);
    }else{
        alert("Fail : " +id)
    }
});

Upvotes: 0

silentw
silentw

Reputation: 4885

var myNum = 3;

$('div[id^="my-div-"]').each(function() {
    console.log("hello");
    if(myNum === parseInt($(this).attr('id').replace('my-div-',''), 10)) {
      alert("found => " + $(this).attr('id'));
    } else {
      // do else
    }
});

DEMO

Upvotes: 0

Gramma2005
Gramma2005

Reputation: 83

Using jQuery you could select it with the following:

var id = 4;
var $element = $("#my-div-" + id);

Where id is the variable that holds the number.

Upvotes: 6

Blender
Blender

Reputation: 298582

getElementById doesn't return multiple elements. It returns only one:

var elem = document.getElementById('my-div-' + number);

if (elem) {
    // elem exists
}

And jQuery:

if ($('#my-div-' + number).length > 0) {
    // elem exists
}

Upvotes: 1

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