jQuery Selector: Attribute Filters

2:32p.m., Tue 27 Jan 2009

I just did a lazy thing. I decided I wanted all the links on my site that link to RSS feeds should have a relevant icon.

There's a link i the footer, which would have been easy to fix, but some bulleted links in body copy somewhere.

Two factors kick in at this point:

A) I couldn't be bothered to root out all the links within content

B) My TinyMC WYSIWG isn't best-suited to handle adding classes to links anyway.

So I used jQuery:

$("a[href$='.xml']").addClass("rss");

This attribute selector basically says: "all links that have a href attribute value that ends with .xml".

Which solves my problem.

The documentation is here.