diff --git a/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/label.js b/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/label.js
index b5acd10..700e14a 100644
--- a/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/label.js
+++ b/lib/webrat/selenium/location_strategy_javascript/label.js
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 var allLabels = inDocument.getElementsByTagName("label");
 var candidateLabels = $A(allLabels).select(function(candidateLabel){
-  var regExp = new RegExp('^' + locator + '\\b', 'i');
   var labelText = getText(candidateLabel).strip();
-  return (labelText.search(regExp) >= 0);
+  return labelText.toLowerCase() == locator.toLowerCase();
 });
 if (candidateLabels.length == 0) {
   return null;