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- Richard On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM, MorningZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Straight from the Docs (http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors) > > ==================================================== > Note: if you wish to use any of the meta-characters described above as > a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two > backslashes (\). For example: > > #foo\\:bar > #foo\\[bar\\] > #foo\\.bar > ==================================================== > > > So to select > > <input type="text" id="test:name"> > > it would be: > > $("input#test\\:name") > >