How to find span element with text

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Hi,

span element has text with spaces like

HTML

<span>code project</span>

I have text "codeproject",how to find span element with text which has no spaces.

My requirement I need to find parent element of span.

JavaScript

$('span.contains("code project")').parent();

Its working.

But how find element with text("codeproject") which do not have spaces.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 28-Jan-15 19:27pm

Prasannala

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-01-28T19:31:00

Solution 1

In exact same way.

See also: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors[^].

—SA

Posted 28-Jan-15 19:31pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 28-Jan-15 19:40pm

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Prasannala 29-Jan-15 1:42am

you are saying $('span.contains("codeproject")').parent(); But element is not finding. because span element text has spaces. I have text without spaces.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Jan-15 1:58am

No, the space doesn't matter. Check up everything properly. Maybe, there is no such text, or something else.
Well, give as exact example of what's not working. Minimal and self-contained.
—SA

Prasannala 29-Jan-15 2:00am

ok.