Your right. The docs said: "Note: if you wish to use any of the meta-characters described above as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes (\). For example:
#foo\\:bar #foo\\[bar\\] #foo\\.bar" and so I did. I used \\: to escape the ":" or I'm gettin you wrong? On 14 Jan., 12:54, "jQuery Lover" <ilovejqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can not have special character in attribute names. (it's not valid markup) > > Documentation is saying that your should escape VALUE bit if it > contains special characters. > > ------------- > Read jQuery HowTo Resource - http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, naden <n...@naden.de> wrote: > > > I'm using jQuery 1.2.6 and having an <a> element with the attribute > > ajax:id="46" > > > <a href="#" ajax:id="46">Test Link</a> > > > According tohttp://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/attributeEquals#attributevalue > > you have to escape ":" with double backslash like I did. > > > alert( $( "a[ajax\\:id='46']" ).attr( 'href' ) ); > > > I tried a lot, but it's not working? > > > Any hint would be appreciated! > > > thanks
