jQuery match only part of id from div

Question

I ran into an unusual situation yesterday night.

I need to match only part of id. Let me clear you all with an example

I have few divs like

<div id="sales_info_1">... ...... ...... ...... ...</div> <div id="sales_info_2">... ...... ...... ...... ...</div> <div id="sales_info_3">... ...... ...... ...... ...</div> 

and jQuery goes like

jQuery("div#dont_know_what_to_write_here").bind("click", function(){     ... ...... ...... ...... ... }); 

I need to match only sales_info, ignoring _1, _2 or _anything, can anyone suggest me how to achieve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use the "Starts With" selector:

$('div[id^="sales_info_"]') 

I'd rather recommend you use a unique class name for your elements that you can select on though.

Answer 2

Alternatively, add class="sales_info" to your HTML mark-up.

Then, do this:

$(".sales_info").bind("click", function() {    ... }