jQuery .search() to any string

Question

I saw this code snippet:

$(\"ul li\").text().search(new RegExp(\"sometext\", \"i\"));

and wanted to know if this can be extended to any str

Answer 1

Ah, that would be because RegExp is not jQuery. :)

Try this page. jQuery.attr doesn't return a String so that would certainly cause in this regard. Fortunately I believe you can just use .text() to return the String representation.

Something like:

$("li").val("title").search(/sometext/i));