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Declare the escape function for jquery at first

$.escape = function(str) {
  return str.replace(/[!"#$%&'()*+,.\/:;<=>?@\[\\\]^`{|}~]/g, '\\$&');
};

// the value contain special character
var searchValue = 'your-value*'; 

// this is safe with escape
var list1 = $('[value="' + $.escape(searchValue) + '"]';

// this may error without escape
var list2 = $('[value="' + searchValue + '"]';