jQuery $.each vs :contains

Benchmark created on December 2, 2011

Preparation HTML

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
  <li>item 1</li>
  <li>item 2</li>
  <li>item 3</li>
  <li>item 4</li>
  <li>item 5</li>
</ul>

Test runner

  $('ul li').each(function () {
    if ($(this).text() === "item 3") {
      $(this).addClass('item-3');
    }
  });
 

$('li:contains("item 3")').addClass('item-3');
 

$('li').filter(function(){
    return $(this).text() === 'item 3'
}).addClass('yourClass');

 

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published on December 2, 2011