jQuery filter by an attribute value

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Answer 1

Not claiming this is any more elegant, but using filter() on a collection allows much more flexibility on what you can match on, and is a little less error prone than string concatenation.

var matching = $('.selectedColumns a').filter(function(){
                   return $(this).attr('attributeid') == 41
                });
    matching.prop('selected', true);