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#5241 closed bug (worksforme)
Opened September 15, 2009 06:38PM UTC
Closed October 03, 2009 12:55AM UTC
Last modified March 10, 2012 07:35AM UTC
Periods and colons in jQuery id selectors
| Reported by: | maros | Owned by: | john |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | selector | Version: | 1.3.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Dots and colons in jQuery selectors don't seem to work, although they are allowed by the W3C specification.
does not work
$('#element.1224')
<span id="element.1224"></span>
works
$('#element_1224')
<span id="element_1224"></span>
Special characters must be escaped with
.