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

If you just want the node closest to the text you're searching for, you could use this:

$('*:contains("my text"):last');

This will even work if your HTML looks like this:

 blah blah my text

Using the above selector will find the tag, since that's the last tag which contains that entire string.