Help in jquery selector

I have form elements like this:

<input type='text' id='person_1_name'>
<input type='text' id='person_2_name'>
<input type='text' id='person_3_name'>
<input type='text' id='person_4_name'>
<开发者_JAVA百科input type='text' id='person_5_name'>
..
..
..

I can select single element like this:

$("#person_1_name").focusout( function() {

   alert("Hello World");

});

Is there any selector that select all elements(person_<*>_name) like this without describing them separately ?

Thanks

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this is not the right way .

you should add Class to each of the elements and then select it by :

$(".MyClass")...

but if you insist :

  $('div') .filter(function() { return this.id.match(/person\_[0-9]\_name/); }) .css('border','solid 1px red')

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JQuery emulated CSS selectors. So, this should work well:

$('input[id^="person_"][id$="_name"]');

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$("id[id^='person_']"); //starts with
$("id[id$='_name']"); //ends with

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Add a class to the person_n_name elements and use a class selector instead.

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You could try by picking them with a class. First set them a class and then pick them via script

like this:

<input type='text' id='person_1_name' class='person'> 
<input type='text' id='person_2_name' class='person'> 
<input type='text' id='person_3_name' class='person'> 
<input type='text' id='person_4_name' class='person'> 
<input type='text' id='person_5_name' class='person'> 

<script type="text/javascript">

var person = $(".person");

person var will contain a array

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The best way is to add class='person_name' in your input and use

$(".person_name")focusout( function() {

   alert("Hello World");

});

But if you are forced to use id then you can use the code below

$("input[id^='person_'][id$='_name']").focusout( function() {

   alert("Hello World");

});

See a working demo here http://jsfiddle.net/usmanhalalit/aPD5K/

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This should work (untested)

$('input[id*="person"]')