There are situations when you want to select only dom elements which only have a specific content. jQuery provides a beautiful selector :contains: $("a:contains(Pages)") ```But what if it isn't enough to just get all the elements which contain some word? Let's check what we get if we traverse all anchors on http://sv.wikipedia.org containing "wiki": $(“a:contains(wiki)”).each(function(i) { console.log($(this).text()); }); [](https://sharepointkunskap.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/jquery-contains-wiki.png) There is another, a generic way, to filter out elements, and it is called "filter".