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mcky
mcky

Reputation: 843

Find text within multiple elements jquery

First, this is probably a duplicate. Just couldn't find any answers that worked for me.

I have a block of elements like this

<a id="folder" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    img
</a>

is there any way for jquery (or just js) to find the text inside there? I'd like it to return 'img' when given that setup.

Thanks in advance, Michael

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (3)

Ovais Reza
Ovais Reza

Reputation: 86

You can use string search() method.

var str = "This is test"; str.search("is")

will return you, first match of the regular expression inside the string, in this case 2.

Checkout

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/search

Upvotes: 0

cssyphus
cssyphus

Reputation: 40106

Let us know what else you want to do with this.

var all = $('a').text();
alert(all);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a id="folder1" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    img
</a>
<a id="folder2" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    van
</a>
<a id="folder3" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    project
</a>
<a id="folder4" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    fun
</a>
<a id="folder5" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    picnic
</a>
<a id="folder6" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    car
</a>
<a id="folder7" href="http://example.com/update.php?dir=%2Fexample%2Fimg">
    <i class="fa fa-folder-o"></i>
    wagon
</a>

Upvotes: 0

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 782285

It's simply $("#folder").text()

Upvotes: 2

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