Element or class LIKE selector for jQuery?

Question

For whatever reason I have these classes called .main_sub1, .main_sub2 etc. Never mind why I can\'t have .main .sub.

Is there

Answer 1

Yes, you can use an attribute selector to match certain values for the class attribute.

$('[class^=main]') // class begins with "main"
$('[class*=main]') // class contains "main" anywhere within it