Wildcards in jQuery selectors

Question

I m trying to use a wildcard to get the id of all the elements whose id begin with  jander   I tried     jander         jander    but it doesn t work    I know I can use classes of the elements to solve it  but it is also possible using wildcards     lt script type  text javascript  gt     var prueba              jander   each function          prueba push   this  attr  id              alert prueba           lt  script gt    lt div id  jander1  gt  lt  div gt   lt div id  jander2  gt  lt  div gt

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To get the id from the wildcard match    x000D   x000D      id  pick     click  x000D    function event    x000D   x000D         Do something with the id   here   x000D      alert  Picked     event target id slice 5    x000D   x000D      x000D     x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt div id  pick 1  gt moo1 lt  div gt  x000D   lt div id  pick 2  gt moo2 lt  div gt  x000D   lt div id  pick 3  gt moo3 lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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When you have a more complex id string the double quotes are mandatory   For example if you have an id like this  id  2 2   the correct way to access it is     input id  2 2      As much as possible use the double quotes  for safety reasons

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for classes you can use    div class   jander

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Since the title suggests wildcard you could also use this    x000D   x000D    document  ready function    x000D    console log     id  ander      x000D      x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt div id  jander1  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   lt div id  jander2  gt  lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    This will select the given string anywhere in the id

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Try the jQuery starts-with      selector        eg    id   jander     I have to ask though  why don t you want to do this using classes

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To get all the elements starting with  jander  you should use       id  jander      To get those that end with  jander       id  jander      See also the JQuery documentation

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