jQuery: dealing with a space in the id attribute

Question

I have an element with id=\"A B\". The following code fails:

Answer 1

While it’s technically invalid to have a space in an ID attribute value in HTML (see @karim79’s answer), you can actually select it using jQuery.

See http://mothereffingcssescapes.com/#A%20B:

jQuery uses a Selectors API-like syntax, so you could use $('#A\\ B'); to select the element with id="A B".

To target the element in CSS, you could escape it like this: