#6219 closed bug (invalid)
:contains breaks with (
Reported by: | lexxx | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | 1.4.3 |
Component: | selector | Version: | 1.4.2 |
Keywords: | contains parenthesis | Cc: | |
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
if the quoted needle contains ( without a closing ), it throws an exception: uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression:
i think finding this kind of text should be allowed
$('li:contains("xxx(yyy")'); exception
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
Priority: | → undecided |
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Resolution: | → invalid |
Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
This doesn't work:
$("td:contains('\\(')")
I get: "Syntax error, unrecognized expression: '\(')"
And this doesn't work:
$("td:contains('\(')")
I get: "Syntax error, unrecognized expression: '(')"
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by
This seems to work for me as of 1.8.2: http://jsfiddle.net/xnRgW/
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The main reason that this isn't working is that you're not escaping the special characters (eg ") that you're trying to use in your selector. As per the jQuery documentation on selectors:
If you wish to use any of the meta-characters (#;&,.+*~':"^$[]()=>|/@ ) as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes:
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Closing as invalid.