How to select all anchor tags with specific text

jquery html css-selectors
Geoff Appleford picture Geoff Appleford · Mar 15, 2010 · Viewed 62.1k times · Source

Given multiple anchor tags:

<a class="myclass" href="...">My Text</a>

How do I select the anchors matching the class and with some specific text. eg Select all anchors with the class:'myclass' and text:'My Text'

Answer

David Morton picture David Morton · Mar 15, 2010 
$("a.myclass:contains('My Text')")

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