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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:05:24+00:00

I need to reask my old question, I probably shouldnt have asked it at

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I need to reask my old question, I probably shouldnt have asked it at 1am 😛

It seems that some attributes are not being found using jquery’s attribute selector:

$('*[some=value]');

So far it seems that i cant use form’s action attribute, and img’s src attribute. Is there a list somewhere of attributes that do not work so i can write custom selectors for them?

Thanks again!

Edit: No one seems to believe that some selectors do not work as expected. Look at this example: On this site (which has jquery 1.3 on it for firebugging) there is a form that looks like this:

<form style='display: inline;' method='get' action='list'>

(its around the ‘search current downloads’ dropdown). If you open firebug and try this selector: 

$('form[action=list]');

you will NOT be able to select the form. There is nothing special about the action attribute. Same goes for the src of the logo image on that page:

<img alt='Logo' src='/p/aost/logo?logo_id=1238551994'/>

The selector which does not work is:

$('img[src=/p/aost/logo?logo_id=1238551994');

Sure, i can do wildcard matches, that is not what i am after.

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  1. There is no ‘list’ of unsupported attributes because there shouldn’t be; this is a bug in jQuery.

    Here are the open tickets on this:

    Apparently the common denominator between the bugs is that jQuery is comparing the selector string you specify against the full URL as opposed to the actual action/src attribute as it is defined in the HTML. This explains why the attributeEndsWith or the attributeContains selectors do work in this case.

    I would recommend just giving the form/image a class/ID and getting it over with.

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