Comments on: ID Selector (“#id”)

By: pjam

pjam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:57:50 +0000

I was having the problem vamsipdhar and others reported.

After a bit of research, I found out that this selector returns an object, and not an element as the description claims. Is this the expected behaviour? If so, the description is misleading.

For those having the same prob as vamsipdhar and need a quick fix, try
alert($(aClientID)[0].html());

Hope someone knows how to answer my question.

P.S. Im using jquery.1.3.2.min.js and also jqueryui-1.7.2

By: Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:44:23 +0000

That's right. .value is a DOM property, not a jQuery property. If you want to use jQuery to get the value, use this:
$(“#ReportsBasePath”).val();

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:09:22 +0000

JQuery still returns almost as though it had found the object. The .length property will be 0 on failure to locate the ID.