jQuery if “this” contains

Question

I\'m trying to change any elements containing a particular text string to a red color. In my example I can get the child elements to become blue, but there\'s something about th

Answer 1

:contains is a selector. To check if a selector applies to given variable, you can use is:

if($(this).is(':contains("Replace Me")')) 

However Vega's solution is cleaner in this case.