Why would the jQuery selector return null?
<p>I'm writing javascript for a page that was built using a WYSIWYG. No, I cannot at present go in and change the IDs or really tweak the DOM.</p>

<p>This is the DOM element I'm trying to select (this was created by the WYSIWYG).</p>

<pre><code>&lt;td nowrap="true" align="left" id="vW2070;" name="vW2070;" style="padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; border-left: 1pt solid black; cursor: auto; background-color: rgb(164, 194, 64); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=" nAll selected" selected="1" sn="itemList"&gt;TOP 5&lt;/td&gt;
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<p>Currently in my javascript the ID I'm trying to get is <code>#vW2070;</code>. For some reason <code>document.getElementById("vW2070;")</code> returns perfectly but <code>$("#vW2070;")</code> returns null. Why is this? I need to use the jQuery selector.</p>

<p>The function in question is ran on <code>$(document).ready</code>.</p>

<p>I've never seen anything like this.</p>

<p>Thank you, all.</p>

<p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Without the semi-colon it doesn't pick it up either. The semi-colon is literally in the ID attribute on the element thanks to the WYSIWYG.</p>
