Escaping meta-characters in Internet Explorer 6 and 7

[wall66@…]

Documentation for Selectors contains following part:

«If you wish to use any of the meta-characters (#;&,.+*~':"!^$[]()=>|/@ ) as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes: \\. For example, if you have an an input with name="names[]", you can use the selector $("input[name=names\\[\\]]").»

Internet Explorer versions below 8 do not understand selectors with double backslashes before meta-characters in names. For example, selector $('input[name="files\\[\\]"]') does not find tag <input name="files[]" />, while selectors $('input[name="files\[\]"]'), $('input[name="files[]"]') and $('input[name=files[]]') finds it in all browsers.

Which version of the selector is correct? Please, represent your answer in documentation.

And sorry for my english, I hope you understand me.

[wall66@…]

Upd: it seems like this belongs only to "find" method

[wall66@…]

​http://jsfiddle.net/NtYs5/ - try to open it in different browsers

[anonymous]

in jQuery 1.4.2 and less problem shows up in all browsers

[snover]

Duplicate of #6428.