Jquery find within an array of elements

Question

I have selected a bunch of li elements that meet a certain criteria like so:

var x = $('li[attribute="value"]');

Now rather than searching the dom again, I want to search x for an li tag that has a specific id. I could use a .each to search x but was wondering if there was a one line statement I could use.

something like this:

var myLi = x.find("[id=23]");

or is it faster to search the dom using the id tag. What if I wanted to search on a second attribute?

Please advise.

Thanks!

Edit

Please note that I want to change the properties of myLi (say make its background color red) so I need a ref to the element. thanks.

Answer 1

You can do so:

var myLi = x.filter('#23');

jquery.filter(): Reduce the set of matched elements to those that match the selector or pass the function's test.