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#1041 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened March 11, 2007 07:59PM UTC

Closed March 12, 2007 07:58PM UTC

Last modified June 20, 2007 12:51AM UTC

jQuery support for IDs with square brackets

Reported by: trucex Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 1.1.3
Component: core Version: 1.1.2
Keywords: selectors Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

After some toying with it, I've had to revert a lot of my value changing code to just straight DOM manipulation with getElementById instead of using jQuery :(

No error is thrown, but no change is made either, when I perform a statement like the following:

$("#myid[0]").html("Hello World!");

Everything works fine, however, if I use document.getElementById("myid[0]").

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Changed March 11, 2007 08:13PM UTC by aheimlich comment:1

Brackets are not legal characters in IDs, so I'm surprised that works at all.

FYI:

The (ID) attribute's value must begin with a letter in the range A-Z or a-z and may be followed by letters (A-Za-z), digits (0-9), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods ("."). The value is case-sensitive.

Source: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/attrs.html#id

Though for CSS selectors, colons (":") and periods (".") are not allowed because they have special meaning in CSS selector syntax (though there is talk about adding some kind of support for these within jQuery)

Changed March 12, 2007 07:58PM UTC by john comment:2

resolution: → wontfix
status: newclosed