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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:56:41+00:00

Say I want to select an element such as <div class=my class>InnerHTML</div> While this

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Say I want to select an element such as

<div class="my class">InnerHTML</div>

While this may be done easily using CSS selectors with [class="my class"], gwtquery has a difference in the sense that it doesn’t take the quotation marks in the input. It only accepts values like [attribute=attributevalue].

When I applied the same selector in GQuery with the space in between, it returned no matches. I have a feeling that this might be because of some incorrect parsing in the library for such cases. Is this so?

If so, is there any other way I might select these elements using GQuery?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It works for me (at least with gwtquery-1.1.0 and gwt 2.4.0)

    GQuery myClassDivs = $("div[class=\"my class\"]");

    returns a match for <div class="my class"/>.

    However, with the class attribute, it’s generally better to use the ~= selector instead, because <div class="my class"/> and <div class="class my"/> should usually be treated as equivalent.

    So I would suggest using

    GQuery myClassDivs = $("div[class~=my][class~=class]");

    This will also select something like <div class="my class special"/>, which is usually desirable.

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