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HTML
<select id="mySelect[]">
<option value="1">Yadda</option>
<option value="2">Yadda</option>
<option value="3">Yadda</option>
</select>
JavaScript
alert($("#mySelect\\[\\]").attr('id'));
<select id="mySelect[]">
<option value="1">Yadda</option>
<option value="2">Yadda</option>
<option value="3">Yadda</option>
</select>
alert($("#mySelect\\[\\]").attr('id'));