Phonegap / Cordova jQuery未捕获错误：语法错误，无法识别的表达式

Question

I'm developing a Cordova App, I have a variable call one which contains following:

Lorem Iépsum "Dolor sit", 2do. Blah, House Nº 31.<br>Monday / Friday, de 2:00 pm. a 6:00 pm.<br>Teléfono: <a href="tel:555777"555-777</a> Ext. 032.<br>

If I do:

two=$(one).text();

I got the error:

file:///android_asset/www/js/jquery-1.11.0.min.js: Line 2 : Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Lorem Iépsum "Dolor sit", 2do. Blah, House Nº 31.<br>Monday / Friday, de 2:00 pm. a 6:00 pm.<br>Teléfono: <a href="tel:555777"555-777</a> Ext. 032.<br>

Why is this happening? Is it because it contains characters with accents and tildes? Or is for the reason that contains quotes?

Thanks for reading!

Answer 1

Since you have a text like Lorem Iépsum "Dolor sit", 2do. Blah, House Nº 31.<br>Monday / Friday, de 2:00 pm. a 6:00 pm.<br>Teléfono: <a href="tel:555777"555-777</a> Ext. 032.<br> Lorem Iépsum "Dolor sit", 2do. Blah, House Nº 31.<br>Monday / Friday, de 2:00 pm. a 6:00 pm.<br>Teléfono: <a href="tel:555777"555-777</a> Ext. 032.<br> Lorem Iépsum "Dolor sit", 2do. Blah, House Nº 31.<br>Monday / Friday, de 2:00 pm. a 6:00 pm.<br>Teléfono: <a href="tel:555777"555-777</a> Ext. 032.<br> jQuery considers it to be a selector, so it fails the selector validation because if the < and > characters.

If you want to construct a html element using the string then you need to wrap the string using a html element like

var two = $('<div />', {
    html: one
})

It creates a div element with the string of one as its content.

If you want jQuery to consider the passed string as a html string to construct a new element then in has to start with <

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