Hello all,

I am trying to see if a particular string appears in a div. I have tried but it doesn't return true or false which is what I thought contains did?

if($("#path"+i+"_status:contains('!=')")){

     alert($("#path"+i+"_status:contains('!=')"));

    //alerts - [object object]

     return true;

}

Here is my HTML:

<div class="status" id="path3_status">
<img height="21" align="absmiddle" src="images/valid.jpg">Text File (3000) = Source Table (3000)<img height="21" align="top" src="images/info.jpg" " id="img_path3">
<a onclick="clear_file('TI004OBAE', 'path3');" href="#">Clear</a>
</div>

What am I doing wrong. How can I find out if a div contains the string "!="?

Thanks all for any help