Finding elements in HTML with certain attribute with jquery

Question

If I have the following HTML

<Something attribute="" id="top">
    <Something attribute="child" id="child"></Something>
</Something>

I am trying to get a jquery object representing the second Something element. I am trying the following query (as suggested in this question Find all elements with a certain attribute value in jquery) in my browser console

$("Something[attribute='child']")

But I seem to be getting the same empty array each time, however the following works

$("Something[attribute='']")

This returns me an array of one element representing the first Something element

Something[attribute='child'] -> Selects something that has the attribute attribute='child' | Something [attribute='child'] -> selects something that has a child that has the attribute attribute='child'. — Ismael Miguel
– Ismael Miguel, Commented May 8, 2016 at 1:11
@IsmaelMiguel Wait I don't see the difference between those two.. — Curious
– Curious, Commented May 8, 2016 at 1:14

agustin · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-08 01:14:18Z

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This will return a DOM array of divs which have id (attribute) "stack":

var stack = $('div[id=stack]');

var result = " ";

$(stack).each(function(index, element){
    result = element.id + result;
});

document.body.innerHTML = result

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="stack"></div>
<div id="stack"></div>
<div id="notstack"></div>
<div id="notstack"></div>

answered May 8, 2016 at 1:14

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