Select elements jQuery with Regex

Question

I have a HTML page where many elements are dynamically inserted as the user requests. Each of these elements have an id attribute with some string plus a numeric id value plus another string.

Example: budget_budget_alive_elements_attributes_10_unit_value

And so I tried the following selector:

$("#budget_budget_alive_elements_attributes_\d+_unit_value");

But it unfortunately does not work.

Some person wrote an article of an extension to jQuery selector for fetching these kinds of ids but I had no luck with that, either.

Can you help me here? Given the constraints of the element's id values, how can I make a selector for them?

I think $('[id^="budget_budget_alive_elements_attributes_"][id$="_unit_value"]'); is good enough, if you still want to validate the digits then use a regex and .filter() — Arun P Johny
– Arun P Johny, Commented Jan 6, 2014 at 10:57

xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-06 10:57:37Z

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You'd better use class selector (by adding same class to these elements).

Else you have to use something like:

$("[id^='idbudget_budget_alive_elements_attributes']")

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 10:57

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ChrisIPowell Over a year ago

I agree, if you've got groups of elements that do the same thing, classes are the way to go.

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