Reputation: 22964

jQuery selector for an HTML element whose id contains a point (.)

The element:

<input type='text' id='Customer.name' value='' />

The invalid jQuery selector:

$('#Customer.name')

Does anyone know what the selector should be for this element?

Upvotes: 17

Answers (3)

Reputation: 620

From the jquery documentation:

$("#Customer\\.name")

Upvotes: 5

Reputation: 262939

You can escape the period character with two backslashes:

$('#Customer\\.name')

Upvotes: 19

Reputation: 77966

$('input[id="Customer.name"]')

Upvotes: 19