Jquery search for input containing specific text

Ideally, your checkboxes should have a value equal to the text you want to fetch.

So you can use jQuery queries

$("input[type='checkbox'][value*='Teste']")

For example

Notice the * = operator of the query, this is the same as "contains", ie it looks for any part of your string. If you want the text to be exactly the same, use = .

Example on finder: link

Edited

In case of using the data-text would be

$("input[type='checkbox'][data-text*='texto']")

More information about jQuery selectors at link

You can do it this way:

$(":checkbox").filter(function() {
  return this.value == '5';
}).prop("checked","true");

or

$("input[type=checkbox][value=5]").prop("checked",true);​

DEMO: link