Find tag that contains certain text and add a class

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Published on 2012-11-23T10:54:15Z Indexed on 2012/11/23 10:59 UTC
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I have the following HTML, and I need to add a class to both <li> and <a> where the text 'Charts' exists (so not the second line, but rather the 4th and 5th). I cannot change the output of the HTML.

<div class="wp-submenu-wrap">
    <div class="wp-submenu-head">Charts</div>
    <ul>
        <li class="wp-first-item">
            <a class="wp-first-item" tabindex="1" href="admin.php?page=charts">Charts</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a tabindex="1" href="admin.php?page=add-chart">Add Chart</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

I've tried doing this by locating the <a> tag that contains the text, but it is not working. Can somebody please point me in the correct direction? Thanks.

Code that I've tried -

$(document).ready(function(){

    if(pagenow === 'admin_page_edit-chart') {

        var page = $('.wp-submenu-wrap a:contains["Charts"]');

        page.addClass('current');
        page.parent('li').addClass('current');

    }

});

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