jQuery :contains(), but to match an exact string

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You can use filter for this:

$('#id').find('*').filter(function() {
    return $(this).text() === 'John';
});

Edit: Just as a performance note, if you happen to know more about the nature of what you’re searching (e.g., that the nodes are immediate children of #id), it would be more efficient to use something like .children() instead of .find('*').

Here’s a jsfiddle of it, if you want to see it in action: http://jsfiddle.net/Akuyq/

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