about the method of $(el).contants('text') can't work

[joshua]

the method of $(el).contants('text') can't work in the version 1.2.1

[davidserduke]

What exactly are you trying to do? Do you mean contents()?

If you have

<p>Some text</p>

$("p").contents() will give the text node as a jQuery object. So

$("p").contents().get(0).nodeValue == $("p").text()

So can you give an example of what it doesn't do you expect it to? There is no documented parameter for contents() so I'm not sure what the 'text' is for.

[joshua]

I'm sorry! It's my false; It's no bug. I spelt the 'contains' to 'contants'

[joshua]

Content Filters: Name Type :contains(text) Returns: Array<Element> Matches elements which contain the given text.

<code>

<script src="jquery12.js"></script> <script> $(function(){

alert( $('p').contains('llo').html() );

}); </script> <p>Hello</p>

</code>

It cannot work when the jQuery's Version is 1.2 up.

The firefox show the error: $("p").contains is not a function.

(no name)()test.html (line 4)

to the wait list jQuery.readyList.push()jquery12.js (line 1911) (no name)()jquery12.js (line 1935) each([function()], function(), undefined)jquery12.js (line 562) ready()jquery12.js (line 1934)

[Break on this error] alert( $('p').contains('llo').html() );

[davidserduke]

I think you are confused. There are two different "methods" available. One is contains which is a selector like:

$("p:contains('llo')")

 http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/contains#text

Which will find all the <p> elements that have the text string 'llo' inside it. This sounds like the one you are looking for.

There is another called contents which is called like:

$("p").contents()

 http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/contents

and this returns children of <p> including text nodes or if the target is an iframe then the nodes inside the iframe.

So again the problem is you are calling a function that doesn't exist. Hope that helps.