Question

If I have a checkbox which has this name attribute below:

name="answerName[True]"

How come when I peform this jquery line below that it does not show the checkbox?

$(this).closest('.option').siblings('.answer').find('input[name=answerName[Yes]]').show();

if the name attribute was this:

name="answerNameTrue"

and the jquery was this:

$(this).closest('.option').siblings('.answer').find('input[name=answerNameYes]').show();

then it does show but how come when I put [] brackets around it that it suddenly doesn’t work and not show the check box?

Answer 1

You can use quotation marks:

$(this).closest('.option').siblings('.answer').find('input[name="answerName[Yes]"]').show();