Find text string using jQuery?

Question

Say a web page has a string such as \"I am a simple string\" that I want to find. How would I go about this using JQuery?

Answer 1

This will select just the leaf elements that contain "I am a simple string".

$('*:contains("I am a simple string")').each(function(){
     if($(this).children().length < 1) 
          $(this).css("border","solid 2px red") });

Paste the following into the address bar to test it.

javascript: $('*:contains("I am a simple string")').each(function(){ if($(this).children().length < 1) $(this).css("border","solid 2px red") }); return false;

If you want to grab just "I am a simple string". First wrap the text in an element like so.

$('*:contains("I am a simple string")').each(function(){
     if($(this).children().length < 1) 
          $(this).html( 
               $(this).text().replace(
                    /"I am a simple string"/
                    ,'"I am a simple string"' 
               )  
           ) 
});

and then do this.

$('*[containsStringImLookingFor]').css("border","solid 2px red");