Although it doesn't precisely answer the question, I landed here when searching for a way to get the collection of elements (potentially different tag names) that simply had a given attribute name (without filtering by attribute value). I found that the following worked well for me:

$("*[attr-name]")

Hope that helps somebody who happens to land on this page looking for the same thing that I was :).

Update: It appears that the asterisk is not required, i.e. based on some basic tests, the following seems to be equivalent to the above (thanks to Matt for pointing this out):

$("[attr-name]")

$('div[imageId="imageN"]').each(function() {
    // `this` is the div
});

To check for the sole existence of the attribute, no matter which value, you could use ths selector instead: $('div[imageId]')

It's not called a tag; what you're looking for is called an html attribute.

$('div[imageId="imageN"]').each(function(i,el){
  $(el).html('changes');
  //do what ever you wish to this object :) 
});