ID/Class Selector

Question

I have some kind of problem with jQuery selectors.

Let\'s say i want to select $(\'#elementID\') but the elementID is a variable.

Answer 1

Not really, no. You need "#" as a selector to select an ID. No reason to not use the ID selector. Or you could write your own function, something like:

$.id = function(id)
{
    return $("#" + id);
}

var elementID = "elementID";
$.id(elementID).text();

That would return an element with the ID of "elementID" without having to use the "#". Kind of pointless though.