Actually jQuery supports a subset of of regular expression-like filters. Check out:
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors and look at the 'Attribute Filters' This would achieve the case you need with jQuery("input[name*='name']") Thatcher On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Ramanathan RV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about allowing regex in jquery selectors? > For instance $("input[name="*name"]) > to select > <input name="firstname"> > <input name="lastname"> > > Typically in forms, most of the components are bundles. Like Names, > Addresses, etc. One use case that I could think of is setting validators on > all these fields would be easier with support for regex. > > -- > Thanks > Ram -- Christopher Thatcher
