Well, you do have "babe" appended to your pseudo, so you should
already be in good shape. ;-)
for the record, my reply to holicGirl was purely due to the timing of
it. For the first time in a long time I had a few minutes to reply on
this and the jquery-en list (and I didn't see your reply before I
posted mine).
cheers!
--Karl
____________
Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:00 AM, lrbabe wrote:
>
> Next time I register on a Group I'm going to append Girl to my pseudo
> as well.
> Look, two detailed answers for one off topic question :D
>
> On Aug 27, 1:49 am, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> if you can use jq('a...@id="myLink"]') then certainly you can use
>> jq('a#myLink')
>>
>> But to answer your question about the syntax error, it's because the
>> XPath syntax you're using for the attribute selector was deprecated a
>> long time ago and finally removed from jQuery in version 1.3. Use the
>> CSS syntax instead:
>> jq('a[id=myLink]')
>>
>> In other words, remove the "@". Also, the quotes around myLink are
>> optional, so I removed them.
>> Again, though, you'll be in better shape if you use jq('a#myLink'),
>> or
>> better yet, jq('#myLink')
>>
>> --Karl
>>
>> ____________
>> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:23 AM, holicGirl wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have a basic knowlegde of jQuery and a problem in selecting a
>>> link.
>>> To be specific I've a problem with the syntax.
>>
>>> I'm using several libraries so I can't use for example the $
>>> ('a#myLink') function but I've to write jq('a...@id="myLink"]').
>>
>>> The application don't recognize the syntax, it shows this message:
>>> Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [...@id="myLink"]
>>
>>> Can someone help me?
>>
>>> Thanks in advance
> >
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