[jQuery] Attribute Selectors

[vmrao]

I have the following code.

var newsCookie = readCookie('newsTabCk');
var tabId = $("#tabPanel2 ul li a[onclick*=newsCookie]").attr('id');


In the second statement above, newsCookie is being considered as text
rather than a variable. What should be done to consider newsCookie as
a variable rather than as text/string ?

Thanks