Ticket #6846 (closed bug: worksforme)
Cannot select tags with ids containing periods
| Reported by: | gwatts | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Milestone: | 1.4.3 | |
| Component: | selector | Version: | 1.4.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocking: | Blocked by: |
Description
$('#some.id') will not match a tag with an id of "some.id" even though it's valid HTML according to http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name
Updating quickExpr on line 38 of jquery-1.4.2.js to add the period to the regex fixes it for me: quickExpr = /[<]*(<[\w\W]+>)[>]*$|#([\w.-]+)$/
I guess to agree with the spec it should also include colons and underscores.
Attachments
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jquery-test.html
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added by gwatts 3 years ago.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by dmethvin
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to worksforme
$("#some.id") Matches an id of "some" with a class of "id", just as it does with CSS selectors. If you want to make your life hard and use ids with dots, you'll need to escape it with a backslash. Since Javascript uses backslash as an escape as well, you have to use two backslashes in the string.
$("#some\\.id")
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