select an element in javascript/jquery by its html content

Question

Imagine I have the following HTML:

<div>
     <p> text 1 </p>
     .. some content ..
</div>

<div>
     <p> text 2 </p>
     .. some content ..
</div>

I want to select the divs by the content of text, is it possible ? and how can id do it ? thanks !!

possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/7321896/jquery-find-element-by-text — Rakesh_Kumar
– Rakesh_Kumar, Commented Jan 21, 2015 at 7:22

Anto king · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-21 07:26:54Z

1

Yes possible, Try something like this

$( "div:contains('John')" ).css( "text-decoration", "underline" );
$('div:contains("test")').css('background-color', 'blue');

Same thing explained here as detail Selector

answered Jan 21, 2015 at 7:21

Anto king

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