JQuery .addclass to table <tr> element where text is found

Question

I am theming some report tables and do not have access to the templates.

I have this code so far which ends up adding "my-class" to every TR element in the report table. However, I only want to add the class to the table row TR where the text was found. I am thinking I need a little more code to do this. Here are a few things I have tried so far:

if ($('#report-area table tr:contains("Name")', this).length > 0) {
$("#reportArea table tr", this).addClass("my-class");
}

I have also tried:

if ($('#report-area table tr:contains("Name")', this).length > 0) {
$(this).addClass("my-class");
}

... but that did not work either.

Answer 1

Just use the selector with no fluff:

$('#report-area tr:contains("Name")').addClass('my-class');

http://api.jquery.com/contains-selector/