jQuery selector regular expressions

Question

I am after documentation on using wildcard or regular expressions (not sure on the exact terminology) with a jQuery selector.

I have looked for this myself but have

Answer 1

If your use of regular expression is limited to test if an attribut start with a certain string, you can use the ^ JQuery selector.

For example if your want to only select div with id starting with "abc", you can use:

$("div[id^='abc']")

A lot of very useful selectors to avoid use of regex can be find here: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/attribute-selectors/