Assuming I have this:
<div id="elementId">bla bla bla some text bla bla</div>
I want to check if this div text contains 'some text', then return true, otherwise return false, how to do that?
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Do you mean if it contains the string "some text" or just some text ?Aerus– Aerus2010-12-29 10:16:11 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2010 at 10:16
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@Aerus There are quotes around the words "some text" in the question.Jacob Relkin– Jacob Relkin2010-12-29 10:16:56 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2010 at 10:16
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1@Jacob ok, i was confused since your answer checks for "bla" instead of "some text"Aerus– Aerus2010-12-29 10:18:16 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2010 at 10:18
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var isContains = $('#elementId').text().indexOf('some text') > -1;
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You can use the :contains() selector and check the .length to see if it matched anything, like this:
return $("#elementId:contains('some text')").length > 0;
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Jacob Relkin
@Nick Why use this when you can use native JS methods?
Nick Craver
@Jacob - I don't follow, since when are
$() and .text() native JS methods? :contains() calls the same thing underneath.Nick Craver
@Jacob - just something to keep in mind,
.innerText won't work in Firefox :) quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_html.html#t04Jacob Relkin
@Nick Thanks for that. I never really use
.innerText anyway, so yeah jQuery helps there for sure. As much as I love jQuery, sometimes I feel that it overlaps onto features that should be left alone. This kind of overlapping is what IMO contributes to people thinking that jQuery is a language, when really it's just a framework.I used the same way of the buddy above...:
if($('#div_searched').text().indexOf('bla') != -1)
This will return true when it found the word bla on div_searched
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let myNode = document.getElementById("elementId")
const Value = myNode.textContent || myNode.innerText
const txtExist = Boolean(Value.replace(/\s/g, ""));
Note: innerText does work in IE, also textContent is not supported in IE8 and older
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I think this should also work.
return $("#elementId:contains('some text')").length ? true : false;
It should return true if length greater than 0, otherwise it will return false.
