Jquery 1.3.2 (Sizzle) cannot use attribute selectors with an odd number of apostrophes in the values.

[benjamin.keil@…]

Given some elements with apostrophe's in their attribute values:

$("body").append("<span title='James&#39;s'>Here</span>"); $("body").append("<span title='St. James&#39;s Places'>There</span>");

I expect $("[title=\"James's\"]").text() to be "Here" and $("[title=\"St. James's Place\"]).text() to be "There".

In the first case what I get (with various attempts at escaping the apostrophe) is:

$("[title=\"James's\"]").text()	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title="James's"]
$("[title=\"James's\"]").text();	""
$("[title=James's]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James's]
$("[title=James\'s]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James's]
$("[title=James 's]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James\'s]

Trying for the second one, I get slightly different exceptions:

$("[title=\"St. James's Place\"]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place"]
$("[title=\"St. James's Place\"]").text();	""
$("[title=St. James's Place]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place]
$("[title=St. James\'s Place]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place]
$("[title=St. James 's Place]").text();	Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place]

If, however, I use an even number of apostrophes, then all is well:

$("body").append("<span title='St. James&#39;s&#39; Place'>Yonder</span>");

$("[title=St. James's' Place]").text();	"Yonder"
$("[title=\"St. James's' Place\"]").text();	"Yonder"
$("[title=St. James\'s\' Place]").text();	"Yonder"
$("[title='St. James\'s\' Place']").text();	"Yonder"

Even $("[title='St. James's' Place']").text() results in "Yonder", which I find surprising.

[rwaldron]

The best part is that the value of the second span'a title attr is "St. James&#39;s Places"... but you actually test for "St. James&#39;s Place" - you're missing an "s".

Please be more careful in the future

 http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/uZhFj/1/

[rwaldron]

ALSO... There is a typo here as well:

$("[title=\"St. James's Place\"]).text()