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    copied!<p>Why is jQuery returning same element twice here?</p> <p>Checked the HTML numerous times, there's only one <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> with <code>id="3"</code> and <code>class="password_field_real"</code>.</p> <p>This is the result for getting all elements with <code>class="password_field_real"</code>:</p> <pre><code>&gt; $(".password_field_real") [ &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="2" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="3" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="7" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, ] </code></pre> <p>However, when I try to get <code>class="password_field_real"</code> and <code>id="3"</code>, I get a list of two divs, which are the same!</p> <pre><code>&gt; $("#3.password_field_real") [ &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="3" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="3" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; ] </code></pre> <p>This is not the case with other two divs:</p> <pre><code>&gt; $("#7.password_field_real") [ &lt;div class="password_field_real" id="7" style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; ] </code></pre> <p>Why could this happen?</p> <p><strong>* UPDATE *</strong></p> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/SdfCC/" rel="nofollow" title="Reproduced">Reproduced</a> this in jsFiddle</p> <p><strong>* UPDATE #2 *</strong></p> <p>If non-numeric ID's are used, everything <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Fmfjn/" rel="nofollow">works just fine</a>.</p>
 

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