Unfortunately, the HTML is generated by a 3rd party application and I
have no control over the id's (and in many cases the lack thereof).
On Feb 10, 1:34 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
