Jquery select first letter?

Question

I am simply attempting to get jquery to identify the first letter of a paragraph. How would I do this?

For example, I have a page with a number of paragrahs on a pa

Answer 1

To hide the

tags whose text does not start with the letter B:

$('p').filter(function() {
  return $(this).text().charAt(0).toUpperCase() != 'B';
}).hide();