How to selector ID textbox array using jquery

Question

I have the HTML code

<input id="info[text1]" type="text" value="1"/> <br>
<input id="info[text2]" type="text" value="2"/> <br>

I want to select id='info[text1]' using jquery but I can't, so can you help me?

Check this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70579/what-are-valid-values-for-the-id-attribute-in-html — Yuriy Rozhovetskiy, Oct 19 '12 at 11:29

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:31

20

You have to escape the brackets with \\

$("#info\\[text1\\]")

answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:31

st3inn

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:30

5

Try it this way.

$('input[id="info[text1]"]')

answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:30

henkieee

Worked for me, add colon before `input` and it works even better ;) $(':input[id="info[text1]"]') - nice one! – Cups May 07 '14 at 13:03

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:30

5

Try this:

$('#info\\[text1\\]');

answered Oct 19 '12 at 11:30

Ram

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