$("a[@href^='this']) <--> href like 'this%';
$("a[@href*='this']) <--> href like '%this%';
$("a[@href$='this']) <--> href like '%this';
More here:
http://jquery.com/docs/CSS/John, maybe it would be good to have a direct link to the CSS and
other jquery expressions pages from the doc home page. They are
available in the jQuery home page itself, but once you move into the
documentation there is no link.
Andrea