Jquery select textarea based on value

Question

I'm trying to select textareas based on the value in them, I tried doing this:

alert( $('textarea[value="Type"]').length );

But I get zero.

Here's my textarea:

<textarea id="Title" name="title" rows="5" cols="29" class="textentry_verdana12pxItalic">Type</textarea>

Can I do this?

Answer 1

value is not an attribute of that textarea. That textarea's HTML attributes are id, name, rows, cols, and class. Try this instead:

$('textarea').filter(function ()
{
    return $(this).val() === 'Type';
}).length

.filter() API docs