How to select html nodes by ID with jquery when the id contains a dot?
<p>If my html looked like this:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;td class="controlCell"&gt;
 &lt;input class="inputText" id="SearchBag.CompanyName" name="SearchBag.CompanyName" type="text" value="" /&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>How could I select #SearchBag.CompanyName with JQuery?
I can't get it to work and I fear it's the dot that's breaking it all.
The annoying thing is that renaming all my id's would be a lot of work, not to mention the loss in readability.</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong><br />
Please let's not start talking about how tables are not made for lay-outing. I'm verry aware of the <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2009/02/17/wanted-layout-system/">value and shortcommings of CSS</a> and try hard to use it as much as possible.</p>
