[OpenLayers-Users] Identify feature by attribute

[Greg Allensworth]

On 1/8/2013 1:41 PM, Jerome A. Wendell wrote:
> I am new to OpenLayers and web mapping.  I have searched the examples
> and help, and did not find any information on how to select a vector on
> a vector layer by attribute.

Assuming you have your Control.SelectFeature already defined and working 
with a click, you should be able to use its "select" method to manually 
feed it a feature:


/// your Control
clicker = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(blah blah);

// some arbitrary chosen Feature from the vector layer
feature = VECTORS.features[7];

// have the Select tool select this feature
clicker.select(feature);


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