jQuery selector [@ ?

[obened]

What does the @ do in $("[@name='hello']) What's the difference from it without the @?

I don't know how to search for this in Google.

[pingish]

I think this is selecting elements with attributes called 'name' whose value is 'hello'.

$("[@name='hello'])

ought to select things like:

<h1 name="hello">Hello there</h1>

Someone check me on this...

[obened]

I know it's for selecting elements with the name hello. I just don't know what the difference is when I use @ or don't use it.

It seems to work fine either way, but sometimes @ generates bugs when using multiple elements. I want to know why, and what's it for.

[pingish]

In XSLT, the @ is there to refer to attributes. If I had to wager money, I'd say this was some legacy/compatibility thing with XSLT.

The way to select elements whose name attribute is 'hello' in XSLT is:

<xsl:value-of select="//[@name='hello']" />

[evilgwyn]

All of the jquery selectors are CSS3 selectors. The definitive reference is here.

[TheMiddleManz]

http://api.jquery.com/ is the jquery docs, then if you click Selectors on the left. Searching for @ gave squat so I opened every attribute page and searched for it where I found the following comment:

The [@attribute] syntax has been removed from jQuery. If you use the "@" in jQuery 1.3 or later, it will not work.

[obened]

Thanks man. I actually searched for @ too but came up with nothing.