CSS selector to select an id with a slash in the i

Question

I've got <span id="/about-us"> being generated by this CMS I'm using.

I'd like to select this element with jQuery but it doesn't seem to like selecting elements with a slash in them.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

you can do

$("#\\/about-us")

      

Answer 2

you can do it like this

     $("span[id*='/about-us']")

where it will return the span with '/about-us' in it's id attribute.

Answer 3

Use the regular way:

document.getElementById('id/with/slashes')

Answer 4

see

Regex Selector for jQuery

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