Need help with jQuery conditional that removes container element based on matched text

here is my markup:

  <div>
        <h3>Title</h3>
        <ul class="eventslist">
            <li>This event would be discarded</li>
                <ul>
                    <li>...</li>
                    <li>...</li>
                </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>

    <div>
        <h3>Title</h3>
        <ul class="eventslist">
            <li>Earnings - This event would be included</li>
                <ul>
                    <li>...</li>
                    <li>...</li>
                </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>

I need help writing a conditional that would go through each UL class="eventslist" on the page, and check that the first LI under UL class="eventslist" contains the word "Earnings" (it can be anywhere in the text, and capitilization should be ignored). If it doesn't, the entire DIV wrapped around the UL should be removed along with everything inside it.

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This jQuery would do what you want:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $(".eventslist").filter(function(){
        var text = $(this).children("li:first").text();
        return !/earnings/i.test( text );  
    }).closest("div").remove();
});

jsFiddle Example: http://jsfiddle.net/dGKMj/2/

$('ul.eventslist').filter(function () {
    return !$(this).find('li:first').text().match(/earnings/i);
}).parent().remove();

jsFiddle Demo

Explanation:

• Runs .filter() on the .eventslist lists, and keeps only those that don't have eanings somewhere in the first li.
• Removes the parent (basically the div) of these lists. Instead of parent(), you can also use closest('div') if the markup could change. The most bulletproof would be to give a class to the parent div, and then use closest('div.container').

While the above answers work, I prefer the simplicity of jQuery selectors.

$('ul.eventslist > li:first-child').not(":contains('Earnings'), :contains('earnings')").closest('div').remove();

I think that this is much easier to read and update later. <-- This is my opinion

http://jsfiddle.net/natedavisolds/QFbD2/3/