this.id in jQuery won't fetch the element id if it is a number or contains numbers.

Question

I have a bunch of automatically generated divs that have a number for their id. Whenever I use this.id to fetch the id it outputs nothing. However when the Id is text only it outputs the id properly. How could I fix this? Anything Helps. Thanks

Edit:

$(".draggable").draggable();
$("*", document.body).click(function (e) {   
                var offset = $(this).offset();
                e.stopPropagation();
                $("#result").text(this.tagName + "  ID:" + this.id + " Coord:" + offset.left + " " + offset.top);
                $.post("http://localhost/framework/test.php", "id=" + this.id + "&x=" + offset.left + "&y=" + offset.top);
            });

This is the offending code. It will get the id of divs however, with the "draggable" class not applied.

   <div id="container">

       <div id="1" class="draggable" style="top:55px; left:55px; border: 2px solid black; display: inline-table; position: relative; background-color: grey; max-width: 500px;">
            <div>Im an Image Posted by:Teh_noob Posted on: 9/15/1991</div>

            <div><img src="http://video.google.com/img/logo_video.gif?hl=en" /></div>
       </div>

       <div id="2" class="draggable" style="top:57px; left:33px; border: 2px solid black; display: inline-table; position: relative; background-color: grey; max-width: 500px;">
            <div>Youtube test Posted by:teh nub Posted on: 9/11/01</div>
            <div><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AJ0SkbPxAk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed id="flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_AJ0SkbPxAk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div>
       </div>

       <div id="3" class="draggable" style="top:33px; left:12px; border: 2px solid black; display: inline-table; position: relative; background-color: grey; max-width: 500px;">
            <div>Text box Posted by:teh noob Posted on: 8/23/09</div>

            <div>TESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTESTTEST</div>
       </div>

    </div>
    <p id="result"></p>

Answer 1

Note that numeric-only IDs are invalid. See this post for more info.

The short and sweet of it is:

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

Answer 2

Although it is allowed to use periods and colons, I wouldn't recommend it.

If you ever have to do a selection based on the id jQuery will fail because it will think that it's a new class selector or a filter.

Answer 3

Hi, In the generated html add a prefix like:

<div id="prefix_1" class="draggable" style="top:55px; left:55px; border: 2px solid black; display: inline-table; position: relative; background-color: grey; max-width: 500px;">
        <div>Im an Image Posted by:Teh_noob Posted on: 9/15/1991</div>

And in the java script, add the same prefix