Select All IDs That Start With "XYZ" jQuery

This fiddle shows a jQuery selector the will select any id (or other parameters can be used) that begin with any value.

by Colin Soderstrom

HTML

<div id="XYZ123"><p>Text 1</p></div>
<div><p id="XYZ456">Text 2</p></div>
<div id="test"><p>Text 3</p></div>

CSS

div {
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 20px;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('[id^="XYZ"]').css({"backgroundColor":"red"});
});