Jquery Handing special charcters in ID

Question

I am generating an HTML from the json response and this can be any data.

Id can be anything like

Blue & White Dress
Black Dress

I tried like

$("['id="+dressId+"']").prop('checked', false);

But still jquery is throwing an error saying that

Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: ['id=Blue & White Dress']

Can you help on this?

Thanks ,Inadvance.

I think you might have your quote marks all over the place, try this. $('[id="'+dressId+'"]') — MCMXCII, Apr 08 '16 at 15:46
You have whitespace in your id. You can't : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70579/what-are-valid-values-for-the-id-attribute-in-html — Michael, Apr 08 '16 at 15:48
@MCMXCII,Thanks for your reply.can you add this as an answer.So that I can accept the answer. — sree, Apr 08 '16 at 17:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '16 at 17:17

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I think you might have your quote marks all over the place, try this. $('[id="'+dressId+'"]')

answered Apr 08 '16 at 17:17

MCMXCII

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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HTML5 does not suppor id's with any space and also some special characters are not valid. You'll need to change you id for instance 'Blue_White_Dress' that it's valid.

Also check here, and here.

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Community

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answered Apr 08 '16 at 15:52

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 15:50

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If you are using the id you can

$("#"+showdiv+"").show();

where showdiv is the dynamic id that you have

answered Apr 08 '16 at 15:50

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Jquery Handing special charcters in ID

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