Get a custom tag (containing colon) value using jquery

Question

I have one custom tag. I want to set value to that custom tag using jquery. Though it look a silly question i spent more time in searching result for that.

My tag is

<error:description code="12345" type="error" result="description" />${description}

Now i want the get that tag and have to pass the values using jquery.

Please help me how to do this.

I have no things i tried area because i not even know how to start.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to escape the colon using two back-slashes, so just do

$('error\\:description').attr("result"); //to get result attribute
$('error\\:description').text(); //to get the related text

Answer 2

I think this should do it:

jQuery("error\\:description").text("your text");