I'm trying to focus an anchor tag

However when I console.log the result the length is 0

here is the tag:

<a href="#Test/686" data-item-type="Test" data-item-id="686" class="someclass">View</a>

I've tried focusing it by:

console.log($("#data-item-id[686]").focus());

however, it does not work as the length of the output is 0. Any suggestions?