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 could also write a small plugin that uses .map() to walk through the classes.

$.fn.classBeginsWith = function(str){
  return !str ? this : this.filter( function(){
    return $.map(this.className.split(' '), function(e,i){
      if (e.match(new RegExp('^' + str, 'ig'))) return 1;
    }).length;
  });
}

And then:

$('a').classBeginsWith('detail-')