jQuery selector to target any class name (of multiple present) starting with a prefix?

Question

I\'m considering one selection statement that would target one of many css class names in a single class attribute value based on a string prefix.

For example, I wan

Answer 1

You can add your own selectors, in your case you could add a regular expression selector for attributes:

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/regex-selector-for-jquery/

Then you could do something like this:

$(':regex(class,(^| )detail-)')

http://jsfiddle.net/ambiguous/ArtRS/1/

I came across that article somewhere on SO but I can't remember where.