Selecting an ID with a colon in it with jQuery

Question

I\'m working on a pre-written module for a site, and I need to target an element with the id test:two. Now, this element has a colon in it, so jQuery is presuma

Answer 1

Simply escape the colon with a \\:

$('#test\\:two');

http://jsfiddle.net/zbX8K/3/

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See the docs: How do I select an element by an ID that has characters used in CSS notation?.