How to use Jquery filter

Question

html:

<div class="searchChkBoxDiv"><input id="searchchk_input"></div>
<div class="searchElemDiv"></div>

js:

var checkBoxVals = ["sandeep", "suresh", "rajesh", "ramesh", "pad"];
for(var i = 0; i<checkBoxVals.length; i++){
            $('.searchElemDiv').append('<div id='+checkBoxVals[i]+'><input type="checkbox"><span>'+checkBoxVals[i]+'</span></div>');
          }

I have the above code, i would like to filter the elements in searchElemDiv added by java script.

Answer 1

jQuery | filter() with Examples

The filter() method is used to filter out all the elements that do not match the selected criteria and those matches will be returned. Parameters: criteria : It specifies a selector expression, a jQuery object or one or more elements to be returned from a group of selected elements.