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rated 0 times [ 45] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 23973 / 10 Years ago, fri, june 6, 2014, 12:00:00

Can jQuery or JavaScript be used with a regex to select multiple elements with similar id?

I have the following paragraphs:

<p id=item5_2> A </p>

<p id=item9_5> B </p>

<p id=item14_2> C </p>

I want to change the content of paragraphs with id starting in item and ending in 2.

I used the following jQuery:

$(#item[d]*2).html(D);

but it doesn't work. How can I get it to work?

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answered 10 Years ago andrewb · Accepted Answer

Yes it can, you can combine the attribute starts with and the attribute ends with selector

$('[id^=item][id$=2]').html(D);

FIDDLE (and you have to enable jQuery in the fiddle)

you can't use regex to match the numbers in between though, for that you'd need filter()

$('[id^=item]').filter(function() {

    return this.id.match(/itemd+_2/);

}).html(D);