Jquery select textarea based on value

Question

I am trying to select textareas based on the value in them, I tried to do this:

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

But I get zero.

Here is my text box:

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

Can I do it?

+3

Mark steudel Mar 10 '11 at 19:43

4 answers

Use the pseudo-selector "contains":

jQuery('textarea:contains(Type)')

+1

Jaulde Mar 10 '11 at 19:47

Try alert ($ ('textarea: ( "" )'). length);

0

StefanS 10 . '11 19:46

alert($("textarea:contains('Type')").length);

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Matt ball · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-10T19:46:32+0000

valuenot an attribute of this text field. This HTML textarea attributes: id, name, rows, colsand class. Try instead:

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