Question

I have the problem with selecting strings:

var idToChange = $(obj).attr('id').replace('#', '');

window.location = $("'li .' + idToChange + ' a'").attr('href');

This doesn’t reload the page but when I do alert('li .' + idToChange + ' a'); I get the correct value, and when I use firebug console to get ('li .' + idToChange + ' a').attr('href'); I also get correct string. I think I am messing something up with quotes during selecting. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Remove the double quotes, you can already see with the syntax highlighter that everything inside of $(...) is red (meaning the it is treated as string):

$("'li .' + idToChange + ' a'")

vs

$('li .' + idToChange + ' a')