jquery - CSS selector to select an id with a slash in the id name?

Question

I've got <span id="/about-us"> being generated by this CMS I'm using.

I'd like to select this element with jQuery but it doesn't seem to like selecting elements with a slash in them.

Is this possible?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5153986/css-selector-to-select-an-id-with-a-slash-in-the-id-name

Answer 1

you can do

$("#\/about-us")