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

Try using an attribute selector

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('div[id="test:two"]').each(function() {
       alert($(this).text());
    }); 
});

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/zbX8K/2/