Question

I have 2 jquery vars:

var contVar = $('#container');
var linkNameVar = $(this).attr('id'); //for example <div id="test">

What I need is to combine them to access #container .test, i.e. for it to look like:

$(contVar .linkNameVar)

How do I:

1. add a . in front of linkName to turn it into a class.

2. then combine the 2 variables into 1 selector.

I looked at the .add() documentation but it doesn’t seem to be what I need.

Answer 1

Try this, you could use the second parameter as the context for selector.

$('.'+linkNameVar, contVar)