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ManiMuthuPandi
ManiMuthuPandi

Reputation: 1604

JQuery :contains not works with html strings

I have a div like this

<div parent_name='level1.3'><span>level1.3.1</span></div>

Now I am trying in JQuery

$("div:contains('level1.3.1')").show()

$("div:contains('<span>level1.3.1</span>')").show()

First One works but second one fails.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 45

Answers (1)

nicael
nicael

Reputation: 18995

:contains() escapes html entities, so you have to use :has() first, to check if that div has the span, and then check if that span :contains() the required text.

$("div:has(span:contains(level1.3.1))").show()

Upvotes: 3

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