jQuery [attribute^=value] Selector (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 11 Jul, 2025

The **jQuery **[attribute^=value] selector is used to select all elements with a given attribute specified by an attribute parameter that starts with the word specified by value parameter.

**Syntax:

$("[attribute^='value']")

**Parameters: This selector contains two parameters which are listed below:

• **attribute: It is used to specify the attributes which need to select (any html element).
• **value: It contains the string from which the value of every selected element's value should start.

**Example 1: This example uses [attribute^=value] selector to select those elements whose class name starts with top.

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**Output:

**Example 2: This example uses [attribute^=value] selector to select those elements whose class name starts with top.

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