javascript - Jquery select all elements with an innerHTML that starts with a string?

Question

I know you can use :contains to get elements who's innerHTML contains a certain string, but how can I get the elements whose innerHTML starts with a string?

Answer 1

Using a filter function you can filter based on any criteria that you'd like:

var spans = $("span").filter(function(idx) {
   return this.innerHTML.indexOf(myString) == 0;
});