The 'attribute does not equal' selector fails to process escaped quotation marks whereas the 'attribute equals' selector does.

Reported by:	jquery@silasdavis.net	Owned by:	jquery@silasdavis.net
Priority:	undecided	Milestone:	None
Component:	unfiled	Version:	1.5.2
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Description

The following 'attribute equals' selector executes sucessfully and finds results:

$("[label=\\"Amy\\\\'s Shoe\\"]")

However the same argument for the 'attribute does not equal' selector fails:

$("[label!=\\"Amy\\\\'s Shoe\\"]")

With:

Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Shoe"]

The simplest failing example is:

$("[label!=\\"\\\\'"]")

Clearly this is inconsistent and I think the escaping should work. I am yet to experiment with entity encoded strings.

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Change History (4)

Changed April 25, 2012 03:15PM UTC by anonymous comment:1

I have since tried:

$('[label="Amy's Shoe"]')

But this selector does not find the element with the label "Amy's Shoe", even though it appears in the literal source with the entity escaping form (as <optgroup label="Amy's Shoe">). Whereas the following does find the element:

$('[label="Amy\\\\\\'s Shoe"]')

So I surmise that I cannot rely on the entity escaped form for the 'attribute does not equal' selector either.

Changed April 25, 2012 06:36PM UTC by sindresorhus comment:2

owner:	→ jquery@silasdavis.net
status:	new → pending

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Changed April 28, 2012 11:59PM UTC by dmethvin comment:3

This is most likely because [attr=value] is standard CSS and processed by querySelectorAll but [attr!=value] is a jQuery selector extension so it goes through an entirely different code path. A thorough test case with all your experiments would be appreciated.

Changed May 13, 2012 08:39AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:4

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	pending → closed

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