xpath selector attribute name with brackets [] fails

[jcctmg@…]

I can't select an input which name attribute has [] inside. In normal javascript, it is posible. This works:

document.forms[0]entityOV.arrayOVs[0].dProperty?.value

But in JQuery fails on IE6.0, IE7.0, FF3.0. $("input[name='entityOV.arrayOVs[0].dProperty']").val() and works OK on Chrome 7.0.517.44, FF3.5, IE8.

In this link you can run it online: ​http://jsfiddle.net/XP34r/

[jitter]

Updated ​test case

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report and providing a testcase!

I can reproduce this only with browsers which don't support qSA (e.g. IE6/7) so I guess it's a Sizzle problem.

[zevero]

I can reproduce it on FF 3.6.12 and Chrome 8.0.552.210 beta on Ubuntu:

<select name="event[maschine_id]"></select>
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(function(){
s = $('select[name=event[maschine_id]]');
s.remove(); //does not work in jQuery 1.4.4 but works on 1.4.2
});
</script> 

[zevero]

I have made a testcase:​http://jsfiddle.net/FqTuK/
Please Run with jQuery 1.4.4 and jQuery 1.4.3

[zevero]

Escaping with / or / / does not work either :(

[zevero]

Workaround! ​OK ' ' or " " do the job

Still there has been a change from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 ​Not OK

[anonymous]

According to ​W3C

escaping with /[ should work, but it ​DOES NOT

ok ... thats enough comments for today :)

[jitter]

In jQuery 1.4.4 the quoting of the attribute value in an attribute selector is mandatory (check on api.jquery.com). And when adding quotes all of the test you posted work.

There is a ticket open for variation where the attribute value is unquoted but all offending meta-characters are escaped.

[jitter]

Duplicate of #7539.

[anonymous]

This ticket is not a exactly duplicate of #7539.

This is about IE6-7, FF3.0. And the other affects IE8.

[jitter]

@anonymous thanks. Nice catch. Looks like I got distracted by the comments zevero made on this ticket which where more related to #7539 .

To get to the bottom of this I made a ​new reduced test case

As I originally already had determined in my first comment to this report

I can reproduce this only with browsers which don't support qSA (e.g. IE6/7) so I guess it's a Sizzle problem.

And this holds true. The error is caused by a bad regex match in Sizzle on ​this line where the CLASS regex incorrectly matches.

[jitter]

#7741 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[anonymous]

I think this is related - ​http://jsfiddle.net/v6yJw/ in latest Safari on Mac.

[ljharb@…]

Replying to anonymous:

I think this is related - ​http://jsfiddle.net/v6yJw/ in latest Safari on Mac.

Forgot to include my email, and to note that in jQuery 1.2.6 it passes, but as of 1.3.2 it fails.

[ljharb@…]

Replying to ljharb@…:

Replying to anonymous:

I think this is related - ​http://jsfiddle.net/v6yJw/ in latest Safari on Mac.

Forgot to include my email, and to note that in jQuery 1.2.6 it passes, but as of 1.3.2 it fails.

Never mind that JSFiddle test - I reread ​http://api.jquery.com/attribute-contains-word-selector/ and apparently ~= requires that the word be delimited by whitespace, and I'm thinking of *=.

[jitter]

#8260 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[john]

#9014 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[john]

Confirmed in bug triage.