jQuery selector for searching the exact same string

Question

I have the following code which search for any dialogs which contains the text hello.

var found = $('span.ui-dialog-title:contains("hello")');

I need the same kind of statement but the dialog title must be exactly hello. Something like:

var found = $('span.ui-dialog-title:equals("hello")');

Unfortunately equals does not work.

Answer 1

There is no equals selector. You need to use .filter() function instead.

$('span.ui-dialog-title').filter(function(){
  return $(this).text() === "hello";
});