Or you can use the attribute selector for brevity:
jQuery("[id='" + actual element id + "']")
which will return the same element. Hope that helps.
On Jul 9, 6:10 pm, KeeganWatkins <mkeeganwatk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralph is correct, as jQuery uses the colon as a prefix for selector
> filters like :hidden and :last. To fix, you can just pass in the raw
> node like this:
>
> jQuery(document.getElementById( actual element ID))
>
> which will return the wrapped set. Cheers.
>
> On Jul 8, 3:47 pm, Ralph Whitbeck <ralph.whitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > It's not a problem with Prototype and it being mixed cause you get the same
> > problem if you just isolate it to just a page with jQuery.
>
> > The problem seems to be an invalid ID name. I was able to get a match when
> > I took :: out of the ID name.
>
> > Ralph
>
> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagr...@d.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > > Greetings,
>
> > > I am attempting to use jQuery in a Prototype environment (Request
> > > Tracker RT3.8).
> > > My ready handler is working, but my first attempt at establishing a
> > > wrapped set is not working.
>
> > > Some snippets:
>
> > > jQuery.noConflict();
>
> > > jQuery(document).ready(function() {
> > > set_max_length('Object-RT::Ticket--CustomField-29-Value', 4);
> > > }
>
> > > function set_max_length(id, max_length) {
> > > alert("There are " + jQuery('#' + id).size() + " elements in the
> > > wrapped set.");
> > > }
>
> > > My alert message comes back with 0 (zero) elements in the wrapped set.
> > > There is an input element with id = 'Object-RT::Ticket--CustomField-29-
> > > Value' in the DOM. Am I missing anything?
>
> > > Thanks for the help,
>
> > > -Matt Zagrabelny
