How to select all anchor tags with specific text

Question

Given multiple anchor tags:

My Text

How do I select the anchors matching the class and wi

Answer 1

You could create a custom selector similar to :contains for exact matches:

$.expr[':'].containsexactly = function(obj, index, meta, stack) 
{  
    return $(obj).text() === meta[3];
}; 

var myAs = $("a.myclass:containsexactly('My Text')");