Why this jquery selector giving uncaught exception: in firefox

Question

I'm populating the results div with images from jsonp call. The images are displayed like

<li><img class="abs" src"..."/></li> 
<li><img class="abs" src"..."/></li> 
<li><img class="abs" src"..."/></li> 
...

I'm using the following jquery code to do a simple task such as displaying the tag name when an image with .abs is clicked on This should return IMG. But instead i am getting uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: # in firefox firebug. What am i doing wrong.

$('.abs').live('click',function(){
    console.log(this.nodeName);
});

I don't think that code would cause that error. Is it possible that there's some other code nearby? — Pointy, Jan 31 '11 at 20:03
Its working fine for me.. Is there any other JS code that is stripped out? — Chandu, Jan 31 '11 at 20:03
Please post actual code that reproduces the issue. If that's your actual HTML, you're using invalid markup. — user113716, Jan 31 '11 at 20:07
my html results as i see them in firebug looks exactly as i have it above with

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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Did a quick search and this came up: jquery nodename returning undefined

From that post:

You are trying to access a non-member of the jQuery object. Use one of these DOM element accessors to retrieve these properties:

$( '#last' ).get(0).nodeName

OR

$( '#last' )[0].nodeName

OR

document.getElementById('last').nodeName

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Jan 31 '11 at 20:04

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OP is doing `this.nodeName` which is equivalent. All the methods you gave are asking for the `nodeName` property on a DOM element. In the handler for `live()`, `this` is a DOM element as well. – user113716 Jan 31 '11 at 20:06
Ok it worked after i renamed class name on the images from abs to abss. Cannot figure out why the class abs would throw this error. I do have .abs on other image elements on the page. – Hussein Jan 31 '11 at 20:26

Why this jquery selector giving uncaught exception: in firefox

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