ID attributes do not match all valid NMTOKENs defined by HTML4

[bcoverston]

an ID of "foo:bar:baz" would fail to match because of the :

The valid set of NMTOKENS is defined by the following regex: [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]*

[bcoverston]

~ ln 952 of 1.2.x remove >> var re2 = /^{([a-z0-9_-]+)(#)([a-z0-9\*_-]*)/i; << replace with >> var re2 = /}([a-z0-9_-]+)(#)([a-z0-9\*:_.-]*)/i; <<

[john]

This has already been discussed here in ticket #143. CSS selectors don't support those characters for selection (since they're used elsewhere). However, CSS does allow you to use a backslash to escape characters. In the SVN version of jQuery you can now escape characters in IDs, for example:

$("#foo\:bar")