Select attribute value with jQuery/CSS

Question

How to select attriute value with jQuery/CSS

<dt onclick="GomageNavigation.navigationOpenFilter('price-left');">

As regular it must be db[onclick="GomageNavigation.navigationOpenFilter('price-left')"] but is not working. Any idea?

Selecting an element that has a specific onclick attribute? That's very fragile and a bad practice. — Ram
– Ram, Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 10:23

Anton · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-30 10:25:55Z

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It should be dt, not db also missing double quote at the end

Change

db[onclick="GomageNavigation.navigationOpenFilter('price-left')]

to

  dt[onclick="GomageNavigation.navigationOpenFilter('price-left');"]
// ^here                     also missing quote and semicolum    ^^

You need to escape the quotes when selecting in jQuery so it would look like this

$("dt[onclick=\"GomageNavigation.navigationOpenFilter('price-left');\"]")

answered Jan 30, 2014 at 10:20

Anton

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2 Comments

i saw the missing quote. However this is not working

@Stan updated answer you were missing semicolum aswell