Jquery if contains For example, given the HTML above, the following will return true: It's pretty late to write this answer, but I thought of including it anyhow. This method is case sensitive. length - Example Be aware, though, that :contains() will return the element if the given string is matched anywhere in the text of the element. Jan 31, 2012 ยท You could also go as far as to remove characters that are not numbers and then construct the input as you wish using a switch statement that uses jquery . text: A string of text to look for. . I have am fairly new to jquery and was wondering what the best way to check to see if one variable contains another. This is for very basic email address validation so I only want to check if the text is not empty, and contains @ and . I thought of W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. As much as I love jQuery, sometimes I feel that it overlaps onto features that should be left alone. lglpwajlpfhphuvzrcpftvbuvttjeupnkmbfnhfzvogrsimvsktfvnndaxbv