Try:
$('#scheduleHours\\[' + dayNum + '\\]')
I think you need 1.1.3 for escaping to work right...
--Erik
On 8/16/07, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've got a little problem here that would seem simple to sort out but
> has been rather stubborn. I'm trying to loop through a bunch of hidden
> text fields and grab their value. They look like so;
>
> <input type="hidden" id="scheduleHours[0]" name="scheduleHours[0]"
> value="7.5" />
> <input type="hidden" id="scheduleHours[1]" name="scheduleHours[1]"
> value="7.5" />
> <input type="hidden" id="scheduleHours[2]" name="scheduleHours[n...]"
> value="7.5" />
>
> These are the product of a Java Server Faces datalist (Tomahawk
> component) so there is no way to avoid the array-like notation in the
> id. I'm just building an array of these values with a for loop:
>
> var schedule = new Array();
>
> for (var dayNum = 0; dayNum < counts.days; ++dayNum) {
> schedule[dayNum] = $('#scheduleHours[' + dayNum + ']').val();
> }
>
> The problem is that the jQuery selector $('#scheduleHours[' + dayNum +
> ']').val() is not matching anything. Could it be possible that the "["
> and "]" characters are being interpreted by jQuery as being part of
> the attribute selector syntax like so? $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]").val();
> I'm taking a guess here that I need to escape the [] chars.
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
>
