attribute selectors can't contain colons

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$('[foo:bar]') doesn't work

​http://jsfiddle.net/wsYPR/

[rtpmatt]

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 element with id="foo.bar", you can use the selector $("#foo
.bar").

​http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

[Rick Waldron]

Thanks rtpmatt

Here is a working example:

​http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/wsYPR/2/

[anonymous]

Ahh, I see the problem. This doesn't work in 1.4.2!