jQuery access element by id

Question

This may be a simple question. I need to access an html element using jQuery in the following way:

var element_ID = "my" + "name" +"xyz";

Now I want to access/manipulate the element whose ID I have stored in 'element_ID' as above.

This doesn't work : $('#element_ID')

Please let me know the correct way to access the element stored 'element_ID' variable.

-Vijay

deceze · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-28 05:52:53Z

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Just use string concatenation once more...

$('#' + element_ID)

answered Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52

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2 Comments

If you don't like building strings you can also do $(document.getElementById(element_ID)) :P

@alex Oh yeah, that's much more succinct. XP