Select a node in jstree using regular expression in JavaScript

Question

I am testing my UI behavior and I am trying to click on a jstree node programmatically:

    $('#search_jstree_id')
        .jstree(true)
        .select_node('nodeName');

But the nodeName comes from users search and it is not exact match with the existing nodes, so I want to use a regular expression in .select_node. I can not make it work. Is it possible? Any other way for jstree?

Answer 1

Not really a regular expression, but you can use a CSS selector, like:

.select_code('.jstree-node[id*="' + selector + '"]')

...where selector is the user input. It will match nodes which have an id that contains the provided string. So for example if selector = 'can' then it could match nodes candle and scanned, but not clan.