You should wrap your string in '?
so your code would be
$('span[class*='mycategory'"],xml).length
cheers
Michael Lawson
Content Tools Developer, Global Solutions, ibm.com
Phone: 1-919-517-1568 Tieline: 255-1568
E-mail: mjlaw...@us.ibm.com
'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't harm yourself
or others, only then should you accept them.'
From: ml1 <tsummer...@gmail.com>
To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
Date: 02/16/2009 11:08 AM
Subject: [jQuery] "class" weirdness in loaded XML?!?
I have something very strange going on trying to create a wrapped set
of elements from an xml file loaded via jquery's xmlhttprequest. The
xml has a number of entries with class attributes that have multiple
values, ie <span class="mycategory mychoice" ...>...</span>
When I use this selector:
$('span[class*=mycategory"],xml).length
jquery returns zero. Weirdly if I do exactly the same thing but use a
different attribute name from "class" in the xml and the query, it
works perfectly.
If I use this method I get the expected result:
$('span').attr('class')
It returns "mycategory mychoice"
Is there something special about the "class" attribute in xml that is
causing this?
<<inline: graycol.gif>>
<<inline: ecblank.gif>>
