jquery escape square brackets to select element

Question

Consider a input element

Here the input field is dynamically generat

Answer 1

The following should work:

alert($('#meta\[152\]\[value\]').val());

or

var id = "#meta\[152\]\[value\]";
alert($(id).val());

Working Example

Conversion Function:

function ConvertValue(id)
{
    var test = id.replace(/[[]/g,'\\\\[');
    return "#" + test.replace(/]/g,'\\\\]'); 
}

Conversion Example