> You can try the powerful .filter() method with an anonymous  
> function as its argument:
>
> $('someElement').filter(function() {
>   return $(this).text() == 'Some text';
> });

It works well, but wouldn't it be very useful (and very "write less,  
do more") to have such a feature:

$('someElement:contains(^Some text$)')

Notice the '^' and '$' delimiters.


-Nicolas

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