How can I select an element with jQuery by matching a partial attribute? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Satpal's answer is pretty good (I like that the selector is restricted to only elements; that will be a little faster than searching the whole DOM).

I would like to suggest, though, that you use multiple data attributes. For example:

I'm Matched
I'm Matched Too
I'm Matched Too

I'm Not Matched

Or classes:

I'm Matched
I'm Matched Too
I'm Matched Too

I'm Not Matched

In in this way, you can match one one thing (either data-foo or class foo), and get the specificity you need as well.