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

$("#content") returns the jQuery collection containing the elmenent with id content. id is an attribute of an element, not a property of the collection. You would get the element's ID by chaining the attr() method off the collection:

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

Or, when eaching the collection, inside the function passed to each this will be the actual element, so you could access this.id

$("#content").each(function () {alert(this.id);});