Question

I would like to address this list with jquery.

<ul> <li id="unique_id"> Some Stuff </li> </ul>

Can someone tell me how I do this. This doesn’t work.

$('ul li #unique_id').blink();

Answer 1

$('ul li#unique_id').blink();

The space after li says that it should look for a descendant with an id of unique_id; you want an li with an id of unique_id.

Usually, however, you don’t want to be that specific. ids are meant to be unique throughout the entire page, and being less specific can even be more efficient:

$('#unique_id').blink();