Wildcards in jQuery selectors

Question

I'm trying to use a wildcard to get the id of all the elements whose id begin with "jander". I tried $('#jander*'), $('#jander%') but it doesn't work..

I know I can use classes of the elements to solve it, but it is also possible using wildcards??

<script type="text/javascript">    var prueba = [];    $('#jander').each(function () {     prueba.push($(this).attr('id'));   });    alert(prueba);   });  </script>  <div id="jander1"></div> <div id="jander2"></div> 

Answer 1

To get all the elements starting with "jander" you should use:

$("[id^=jander]") 

To get those that end with "jander"

$("[id$=jander]") 

See also the JQuery documentation