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jQuery RegExp Selectors

Friday, March 16th, 2007

I don’t know why jQuery doesn’t already provide support in its selector syntax for the Perl-style operators “=~” and “!~“, but I really wanted this feature for regular expression based matching of DOM node attribute value matching:
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