You might save yourself a world of pain if you use standards-based id
attributes:
HTML 4 spec section 6.2 says, "ID and NAME tokens must begin with a
letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits
([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods
(".")."
XHTML spec section C.8 says, "Note that the collection of legal values
in XML 1.0 Section 2.3, production 5 is much larger than that
permitted to be used in the ID and NAME types defined in HTML 4. When
defining fragment identifiers to be backward-compatible, only strings
matching the pattern [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used. See
Section 6.2 of [HTML4] for more information."
On Feb 10, 11:06 am, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yeah, if you want to put text in a textarea, you're suppose to use
> val() instead of text():
>
> $("#\\#SAM1").val("hello");
>
> On Feb 10, 9:04 am, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Try double backslash escaping the second #-sign:
>
> > $("#\\#SAM1").text("hello");
>
> > On Feb 10, 7:36 am, Shredder36 <shredde...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
>
> > > How do I find an element who's id starts with #?
>
> > > For example: <textarea id="#SAM1"></textarea>
>
> > > the following does not seem to work
>
> > > $("##SAM1").text("hello");
>
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated. thank you,
>
> > > Sam
