How do you escape parentheses in jQuery selector?

Question

I am trying to check if a td innertext contains parentheses (). The reason is I display negative numbers as (1000) and I need to convert them to -1000 to do math. I\'ve trie

Answer 1

I don't use jQuery much, but the problem with your first one is that you're trying to put in text where it should be a selector - then you tried using a selector ":contains", but you then tried to escape the "(". Have you tried $("#fscaTotals td").filter(":contains('(')")? Use contains, but don't try to escape the parentheses.