Jquery Selector With Variable Not Working

Question

So i am trying to get a value of a field using jquery and a variable but for some reason I can't get it to work:

    var col = field1;
    var val = $('select[name='+col+']').val();

For some reason this code is not working and I am not sure why. But when I remove the variable it works fine.

    var val = $('select[name=field1]').val();

This works fine. How do i pass a variable value into this equation? Thank you for any help.

Mark Pieszak - Trilon.io · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-02 20:25:32Z

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It looks like you should have field1 in quotes (you want it to be a string correct?)

var col = 'field1'; // now it's a string, and it'll work the way it seems like you intended

answered Apr 2, 2015 at 20:25

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