Select any TR where a TD's text contains foo

I'm pretty sure this can be done without going into a function but I want to grab any TR where there is a <td>Mail ...</td> or <td>Foo ... </td> as examples.

I keep thinking it should look like

$开发者_运维问答('tr[./text()^="foo"]') but chrome doesn't like it. or $('tr[./td/text()^="Mail"]') but no luck can this be done with a simple selector?

I'm quite surprised no one came up with this, maybe my question was too vague.

$('tr:has(td:contains("Leather"))').hide()
$('tr:has(td:contains("Mail"))').hide()
$('tr:has(td:contains("Cloth"))').hide()
$('tr:has(td:contains("Bow"))').hide()
$('tr:has(td:contains("Gun"))').hide()

Going to make it a bookmarklet for searching for armor and weapons for a dk or pally

One possible solution:

$('td').filter(function() {
    return $(this).text().indexOf('Foo') === 0;
}).closest('tr');

You have to use .filter() to work on the element's text (you can't do this with a selector, at least not the way you want to) and .closest() should be self explaining.

Edit: But this could select a <tr> elements multiple times. I actually don't know how jQuery handles this. Another solution would be to use two nested filters (on tr and on td but somehow this feels inefficient).

Edit2: From version 1.4.4 on, jQuery seems to be smart enough to deal with multiple occurances of the same element (i.e. it works like a set). DEMO here (if you change to version 1.4.2, you'll see that the first row gets selected twice).

There is "contains:"

TD:contains("Mail")

But that just looks for Mail anywhere in the element (there is no 'starts with').