quotation marks in Jquery creates error

Question

I am trying to execute this:

$("<li class="   last-item SunItem-8").before("</ul><ul>");

but because of that " I am getting an error how can I capture this but not error out?

Answer 1

You can access with

$('li[class=last-item SunItem-8]').somefunction();

Answer 2

Your selector isn't a valid jQuery selector.

$('<li class="last-item SunItem-8"/>').before("</ul><ul>"); // note the added '/>' at the end of the selector

This way you create a new li-Element. If you don't want to create a new one but want to select an existing one, you should use:

$('li[class="last-item SunItem-8"]')

Answer 3

$('<li class="   last-item SunItem-8">').before("</ul><ul>");