jQuery: get all children whose ID contains part of string

Question

I have a set of links:

<div id="parent">
   <a id="UserFirst" href="#"></a>
   <a id="UserSecond" href="#"></a>
   <a id="UserThird" href="#"></a>
</div>

I need a quick way of getting (for example) all the a children of #parent, whose ID contains the letter i.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

Use jquery contains selector:

$("#parent").find("a[id*='i']").each(function(){
//do something here
});

DEMO FIDDLE