jQuery: caseless selector search?

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For example searching

$('[name=whatever]')

should find

 $('[name=whatever]') and  $('[name=WhaTevEr]')

Thanks ;)

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '11 at 14:42

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Any possible solution is going to be really inefficient, because it cannot work with the browser's native selector engine. It would be better to use a class to identify the elements.

However, if you're insistent on this approach, you can use filter():

$('[name]').filter(function () {
    return this.name.toLowerCase() == "whatever";
});

answered May 11 '11 at 14:42

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+1 Character for character the same as the code I was about to click "post" on! – lonesomeday May 11 '11 at 14:43
@lonesomeday: if I had a penny for every time that happened to me... ;-) – Andy E May 11 '11 at 14:44
Great solution, simple and efficient! – Ortiga May 11 '11 at 14:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Not directly, but you can have a regex as selector

Take a look at this topic:

jQuery selector regular expressions

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered May 11 '11 at 14:44

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