Try escaping the colon: $("#itemForm\\:standards select:last")
Cheers,
-Jonathan
On 1/7/08, npetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I'm updating some of the legacy software we have at my company and
> changing much of the JavaScript to jQuery. I'm having a bit of
> trouble with a few particular id's however.
>
> I'm trying to access the last select element of a block of code and
> retrieve the id like this:
>
> $("#itemForm:standards select:last").attr("id");
>
> itemForm:standards is the id of the block I'm attempting to access,
> and I'm using select:last to get the last select element. This
> doesn't work however. I tried the same method, but used the class
> name rather than the id and the function worked fine.
>
> $(".standardsBlock select:last").attr("id");
>
> I may be mistaken, but I think jQuery thinks I'm attempting to apply a
> selector to the id name because of the colon in the name. How would I
> go about searching for an id like that? Has anyone had any trouble
> with this before?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> -- npetcu
>
