jQuery :contains(unicode_characters)

Question

I have an element like this:

<span class="tool_tip" title="The full title">The ful&#8230;</span>

This seems to work:

jQuery('span:contains(…)');

But this does not:

jQuery('span:contains(…)');

I am pretty sure that it would be bad to use the first one because if someone else saves the file, or the browser decides to get the file in a different character set for some reason things will not work.

There has to be a way to properly select this span, right?

Answer 1

As it turns out, the proper way to do this is:

jQuery('span:contains(\u2026)');

In other words:

Use the hex value instead of the decimal value.