OK this should be pretty easy (or so I thought!)

I just want to hide the ul that follows the span with the text 'AIRS' in the following html.

I can find the span that contains 'AIRS' with this code ...

$('span:contains("AIRS")').css('background-color', 'red');

But then I try the following and I can't get it to work...

var AIRSsubList = $('span:contains("AIRS")').find('ul');

AIRSsubList.hide();

Any help appreciated

Thanks

P

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