Find all elements based on ids using regex on jQuery selector

Question

I\'ve got several elements with unique ids like so:

Answer 1

If the id was something like news-top-1, news-top-2, news-top-3, news-top-4 etc. then the selectors would have helped you.

http://api.jquery.com/attribute-starts-with-selector/

$.each( $("input[name^='news-top-']"), function () {
  alert( $(this).hide() );
});