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.