# Attribute Starts With Selector [name^="value"]

Categories: Selectors > Attribute

## attributeStartsWith selector

#### version added: 1.0jQuery('[attribute^="value"]')

- attribute
    An attribute name.
  value
    An attribute value. Quotes are mandatory.

Description: Selects elements that have the specified attribute with a value beginning exactly with a given string.

This selector can be useful for identifying elements in pages produced by server-side frameworks that produce HTML with systematic element IDs. However it will be slower than using a class selector so leverage classes, if you can, to group like elements.

### Example:

#### Finds all inputs with an attribute name that starts with 'news' and puts text in them.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
      <input name="newsletter" />

      <input name="milkman" />
      <input name="newsboy" />
    <script>$('input[name^="news"]').val('news here!');</script>

    </body>
    </html>

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