Wildcards in jQuery selectors

Question

I\'m trying to use a wildcard to get the id of all the elements whose id begin with \"jander\". I tried $(\'#jander*\'), $(\'#jander%\') but it doe

Answer 1

To get the id from the wildcard match:

$('[id^=pick_]').click(
  function(event) {

    // Do something with the id # here: 
    alert('Picked: '+ event.target.id.slice(5));

  }
);

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