Jquery selector with specific innerHTML

Question

$('.select option:selected[innerHTML="5"]')

My goal here is to select an option which is currently selected and which's innerHTML matches exactly a string (example : "5")

This : $('.select option:selected:contains("5")') does not work since then value 0.375 would match.

user400654 · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-09 20:46:29Z

5

Use filter:

$('.select option:selected').filter(function(){
    return this.innerHTML == 5;
}).html("good");

Also, your fiddle had .select as the className instead of just select.

answered Jul 9, 2012 at 20:46

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This is perfect! Will check as answer as soon as I can!