Jquery get element containing child element with specific html value

Question

I would like to use Jquery to add a class to \"li\" element that contains a \"span\" element with a html/val equal to zero.

For Example if my code looks like this:

Answer 1

Try:

$('li span.num').filter(
    function(i){
        return $(this).text() == '0';
    }).closest('li').addClass('selected');

JS Fiddle demo.