Uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression jQuery

Question

I am having a few problems with jQuery 1.6, I am trying to select this object $('#' + id) where id looks like skill|3345015|7868, but console always give me a :

Error : uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: |3345015|7868

Thanks for your help

Xeres

I wish this question were more clear, in whether id was actually "skill|123...etc.", or whether that was just the selector, and id ~may~ be "skill or "123" or etc.. Read both answers for a full understanding. – Hangman

Answer 1

Try -

$("div[id='skill|3345015|7868']")

You'll have to replace 'div' with whatever element you're searching for. Or, to search all elements -

$("*[id='skill|3345015|7868']")

Demo - http://jsfiddle.net/dV7xM/

Frolicsome

Answer 2

According to w3.org

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

So basically you have an invalid ID and that should be the reason for the parse error

Galluses

so basically jQuery is stuck at HTML 4, since HTML 5 allows any character in an id :( – Revoice