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

Two things.

1. To select an element with a given ID, you need a # character at the beginning of the ID.

2. Don't add the quotes to the beginning and end of the string.

Thus:

$('#show_posts_' + postId)