Need help selecting <select> element

Need help selecting <select> element

Hey Guys. I am trying to select a <select> element by its name attribute, and prevent the form from submitting to itself if the value is equal to hour or minutes. I have wrote the following code but for some reason the console is giving me the following error message

Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: select[name=*'weekday_time_start']

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Below is the js fiddle to my work. Thanks

http://jsfiddle.net/eldan88/m3ewayca/

  1. <form method='post' action='#'>

    Weekday Category Time
    <select name='weekday_time_start_hours'>
    <option>Hour</option>
    <option>06</option>
    <option>07</option>
    <option>08</option>
    <option>09</option>
    <option>10</option>
    <option>11</option>
    <option>12</option>
    <option>01</option>
    <option>02</option>
    <option>03</option>
    <option>04</option>
    <option>05</option>
    <option>06</option>
    <option>07</option>
    <option>08</option>
    <option>09</option>
    <option>10</option>
    </select><select name='weekday_time_start_minutes'>
    <option>Minute</option>
    <option>00</option>
    <option>15</option>
    <option>30</option>
    <option>45</option>
    </select>

    <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Set Category Hours'>
        </form>

jQuery Code


  1.     $("select[name=*'weekday_time_start']").each(function(){
           var  $option_val = $("select[name=*'weekday_time_start']");
            if($option_val.val() == "Hours"){
                return false;
            }

        })