Jquery select first letter?

Question

I am simply attempting to get jquery to identify the first letter of a paragraph. How would I do this?

For example, I have a page with a number of paragrahs on a pa

Answer 1

$('p').hide().filter(function(){return $(this).text().match(/^b/i);}).show();

or indented

$('p').hide()
      .filter(
              function(){
                         return $(this).text().match(/^b/i);
                        }
             )
      .show();

remove the i in the match if you want it to be case sensitive..

and you can look at http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/09/get-url-parameters-values-with-jquery.html on how to get the url parameters..