Find parent element of string in Javascript

Question

I\'m attempting to find a specific string in a document which potentially can have the text split by other tags (i.e. "< p > This is an < span > example < /s

Answer 1

This will get you started. You can use :contains() selector for finding string in html.

function getStringParent(str) { 
  return $("p:contains('"+ str +"')");
}
var parent = getStringParent('This is an  example');
console.log('found ' + parent.length + ' items' + '\n');
console.log(parent);

 This is an  example