Question

I have some elements with (.) periods in them and I need to select them but I need some escape characters to do so I believe. How can I sure that my string that may have a period in it will be escaped properly. Something like this I guess?

var title = "User1.Title";
var string = //replace any periods with escape sequence?
$('#'+string).show();

It may have more than one (.) period, hopefully not but if I can replace all (.) periods so I can do my selection that would be great.

Answer 1

Do you mean this?

$('#'+string.replace(/\./g, "\\.")).show();