jQuery - Find Label By The Inner Text

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to find a label (or any element, really) by it's inner text. For example:

<label for="myCheckbox">SuperSweetCheckbox</label> 

And I want to find it by the text SuperSweetCheckbox.

I know this seems kind of counter-intuitive, but due to the nature of the app I'm working on it seems to be necessary. I realize that I can iterate through each of the labels but I'd prefer to avoid that option if at all possible.

If anyone could provide some assistance, I'd appreciate it.

Answer 1

Maybe

$('label[value|="SuperSweetCheckbox"]') 

according to:

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

or

$("label:contains('SuperSweet')") 

according to

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

Answer 2

use the selector :contains()

 var element = $("label:contains('SuperSweetCheckbox')"); 

The matching text can appear directly within the selected element, in any of that element's descendants, or a combination thereof. As with attribute value selectors, text inside the parentheses of :contains() can be written as bare words or surrounded by quotation marks. The text must have matching case to be selected.