How to get elements of specific class starting with a given string?

css, html, jquery, twitter-bootstrap

Solution

You can use Regular Expression or `split` the class name.

$(".etape").click(function(){
   var classes = $.grep(this.className.split(" "), function(v, i){
       return v.indexOf('btn') === 0;
   }).join();
});

http://jsfiddle.net/LQPh6/

Problem

I have a list of elements that have multiple classes, for example: ``` <input class="etape btn-info others"> <input class="etape btn-inverse others"> <input class="etape btn-danger others"> ``` How to write jQuery-code that will allow me the following... ``` $(".etape").click(function(){ $(this).get("the class that starts with btn-") // in order to store this value in a variable to reuse it later }); ```

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