How to select html nodes by ID with jquery when the id contains a dot?

Question

If my html looked like this:

Answer 1

Guys who's looking for more generic solution, I found one solution which inserts one backward slashes before any special characters, this resolves issues related to retrieving name & ID from a div which contains special characters.

"Str1.str2%str3".replace(/[^\w\s]/gi, '\\$&')

returns "Str1\\.str2\\%str3"

Hope this is useful !