Iterating over element attributes with jQuery

Question

I know individual attributes can be retrieved with the attr() method, but I\'m trying to iterate over all of the attributes for an element. Fo

Answer 1

created this generic function that allows to look-in attributes as well as innearHtml:

function findByAll(toLookFor, lookInText) { 
    return $('*').filter(function() { 
        return Array.prototype.some.call(this.attributes, function(attr) {
            return attr.value.indexOf(toLookFor) >= 0; 
        }) || (lookInText && $(this).text().indexOf(toLookFor) >= 0); 
    }); 
}