Software and Opinions » jquery.escape http://ianloic.com from Ian McKellar Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:48:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 jQuery selector escaping http://ianloic.com/2009/12/27/jquery-selector-escaping/ http://ianloic.com/2009/12/27/jquery-selector-escaping/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:52:00 +0000 Ian McKellar http://ianloic.com/?p=161 Continue reading →]]> jQuery selectors are powerful and simple to use, until you have attribute
values (including ids and classes) that have funny characters. I wrote a plugin
adds a simple function $.escape that will escape any special characters.
For example if I have a string s that contains an id but I’m not sure that
all of the characters are safe I can use $('#'+$.escape(s)) to find the
element with that id. If I want to find all of the links to
http://ianloic.com/ I can do $('a[href='+$.escape('http://ianloic.com/')+']')

The first release is here. I don’t know that there will be any more releases – this is a pretty damn simple plugin.

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