How to add string to jQuery selector?

Question

I\'m trying to select an id that changes on different posts of same page. So the they have been given an id=\"show_posts_{PostID}\" - on the final output the {PostID} is re

Answer 1

You need to include the '#' character at the start of the string.

$('#show_posts_' + postId)

Also, you're trying to stuff the quotes in there in your example, and that doesn't make sense.