jQuery wildcard contains selector

The jQuery wildcard contains selector is used to filter out all the elements in a page, where the specified attribute’s value contains the given value.

[<attribute name>*= <attribute value>]

In this post we shall see on how to use the jQuery wildcard contains selector to select all the elements in a page whose class attribute contains the value cus

The following script lists out all the elements in a page whose class attribute contains the value cus

    $("[class*='cus']").each(function() {

        alert('Wildcard - Contains substring:' + $(this).attr('id'));

    });

The following script lists out all the elements in a page whose class attributes contains the value cus on click of the btnWildcardSelector button.

$('#btnWildcardSelector).click(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();               
    //
    // Wildcard - Contains substring

    $("[class*='cus']").each(function() {

        alert('Wildcard - Contains substring:' + $(this).attr('id'));

    });
});

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