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#8361 closed bug (duplicate)
Opened February 23, 2011 11:39AM UTC
Closed February 23, 2011 11:50AM UTC
Last modified March 02, 2011 04:48AM UTC
ID selector not working for ID having colon or period
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | 1.next |
| Component: | selector | Version: | 1.5 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
jquery ID selector is not selecting html elements which has id having colons (:) or periods (.)
As per w3c http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2 this should be allowed.
Try this :
<div id="abc:xyz">123</div>
<script>
alert($('#abc:xyz').html());
alert(document.getElementById('abc:xyz').innerHTML);
</script>
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Change History (4)
Changed February 23, 2011 11:42AM UTC by comment:1
Changed February 23, 2011 11:50AM UTC by comment:2
| component: | unfiled → selector |
|---|---|
| priority: | undecided → low |
| resolution: | → duplicate |
| status: | new → closed |
Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report and providing a test case!
Your selector is invalid, the documentation is pretty clear about these kind of selectors:
http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/
If you wish to use any of the meta-characters ( such as !"#$%&'()*+,./:;?@[\\]^`{|}~ ) as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes
Check this working test case
Changed March 02, 2011 04:48AM UTC by comment:4
Just in case anyone's going crazy like me, this DID work in before 1.5. I do not object to this ticket being closed for the reason cited--I just want to put others at ease who have discovered the change in behavior as I have.
The jsFiddle url is:
http://jsfiddle.net/wjwRb/