jquery selector not working, why?

Question

I simply want to manipulate the elements within the #content div, but $(\'#content\') doesn\'t seem to work, and yet in other places it does! My relevant code i

Answer 1

id is a plain DOM property/attribute, and works with plain DOM objects, not jQuery objects.

You would do this in jQuery:

$("#content").attr('id');

which equals:

document.getElementById('content').id

or

$("#content")[0].id; //[0] gets the first DOM object in the collection