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#6707 closed bug (invalid)
Opened June 22, 2010 07:32PM UTC
Closed June 23, 2010 02:12AM UTC
Selector does not return element
| Reported by: | bleepzter | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Milestone: | 1.4.3 | |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.4.2 |
| Keywords: | selectors; selector with hyphen | Cc: | |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
In an ASP.NET page I had to display a few products whose id followed the format of "xxxx.xxxx" where "xxxx" was random sequence of letters and numbers generated by the ERP system, all upper case.
For each product I had a text box with Id of "xxxx.xxxx-QTY"
as well as a link with an id of "xxxx.xxxx-ADDTOCART"
When trying to access the $('#xxxx.xxxx-QTY').val() always returned undefined because the selector used could not find the right element.
I double and triple checked to make sure all ID's are unique and indeed that was the case.
I tried document.getElementById('xxxx.xxxx-QTY').value and I got the right value from the text box.
I suspect that internally JQuery uses a regular expression to parse out the selectors and the hyphen in the 'xxxx.xxxx-QTY' string is being removed.
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Changed June 23, 2010 02:12AM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
Sounds like you need to escape the special chars with
in the selector string. If you need more help, ask on the forum before opening a bug report.