Find an element by not exact id

Question

There is an element with id looking like the following:

some_id_123456_some_id_id_id

where 123456 is an arbitrary number which is unknown. How do I find this element by id?

Answer 1

You can do this by combining the both attribute starts with and ends with selector,

$('[id^=some_id][id$=_some_id_id_id]')