Selecting elements with special characters in the ID

html, jquery

Solution

Try escaping it:

$('#abc\\@def.com').val();

First paragraph of http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

Problem

In html code I am using code `<input type = "text" id = "abc@def.com">` to get text now it need to get its value which is entered in text field. I am using jquery to do that: ``` $( document ).ready( function() { $( ".bid" ).click( function() { idVal = this.id bidID = "#" + idVal + "bid" spanID = "#" + idVal + "cbid" bidValue = $(bidID).val(); alert(idVal) alert(bidID) alert(bidValue) //this alert says undefined $( spanID ).html( '&nbsp;' ).load( '{% url online_machines %}?id=' + idVal + '&bidvalue=' + bidValue); }); }); ``` By doing this i get the value error undefined. I tried to remove special characters from the id to get its value. But I need the id with special characters. How can I get its value using jquery ?

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