Question

I’m trying to select a div with the id “about me”. I think I am having problems because of the spaces.

alert($link.attr("title"));

I get “about me”

alert($('#'+$link.attr("title")).attr("title"));

I get undefined.

I have tried to use php and jquery methods for removing them but it doesn’t work.

So how do I get around this?

Answer 1

You need to remove the spaces, IDs with spaces aren’t valid, and you’ll have all sorts of issues…just like this 🙂

You can escape it like this:

alert($('#'+$link.attr("title").replace(/ /g, "\\ ")).attr("title"));

But this is not the correct solution to the problem, removing the spaces is the correct approach.