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  1. POHow do I get jQuery to select elements with a . (period) in their ID?
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    copied!<p>Given the following classes and controller action method:</p> <pre><code>public School { public Int32 ID { get; set; } publig String Name { get; set; } public Address Address { get; set; } } public class Address { public string Street1 { get; set; } public string City { get; set; } public String ZipCode { get; set; } public String State { get; set; } public String Country { get; set; } } [Authorize(Roles = "SchoolEditor")] [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public SchoolResponse Edit(Int32 id, FormCollection form) { School school = GetSchoolFromRepository(id); UpdateModel(school, form); return new SchoolResponse() { School = school }; } </code></pre> <p>And the following form:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form method="post"&gt; School: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Name") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Street: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.Street") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; City: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.City") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Zip Code: &lt;%= Html.TextBox("Address.ZipCode") %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Sate: &lt;select id="Address.State"&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Country: &lt;select id="Address.Country"&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am able to update both the School instance and the Address member of the school. This is quite nice! Thank you ASP.NET MVC team!</p> <p>However, how do I use jQuery to select the drop down list so that I can pre-fill it? I realize that I could do this server side but there will be other dynamic elements on the page that affect the list.</p> <p>The following is what I have so far, and it does not work as the selectors don't seem to match the IDs:</p> <pre><code>$(function() { $.getJSON("/Location/GetCountryList", null, function(data) { $("#Address.Country").fillSelect(data); }); $("#Address.Country").change(function() { $.getJSON("/Location/GetRegionsForCountry", { country: $(this).val() }, function(data) { $("#Address.State").fillSelect(data); }); }); }); </code></pre>
 

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