Arguments
jQuery('[attribute^=value]')
version added: 1.0
attribute
An attribute name.
value
An attribute value. Quotes are optional.
Description: Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value beginning exactly with a given string.
This selector can be useful for identifying elements in pages produced by server-side frameworks that produce HTML with systematic element IDs. However it will be slower than using a class selector so leverage classes, if you can, to group like elements.
Examples
Example 1
Finds all inputs with an attribute name that starts with 'news' and puts text in them.Full source:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("input[name^='news']").val("news here!");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="newsletter" />
<input name="milkman" />
<input name="newsboy" />
</body>
</html>
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