ID selector not working for ID having colon or period

[anonymous]

jquery ID selector is not selecting html elements which has id having colons (:) or periods (.)

As per w3c ​http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2 this should be allowed.

Try this :

<div id="abc:xyz">123</div>

<script> alert($('#abc:xyz').html()); alert(document.getElementById('abc:xyz').innerHTML); </script>

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The jsFiddle url is:

​http://jsfiddle.net/wjwRb/

[jitter]

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

Your selector is invalid, the documentation is pretty clear about these kind of selectors:

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

If you wish to use any of the meta-characters ( such as !"#$%&'()*+,./:;[email protected][\]^{`{|}~ ) as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes}

Check this ​working test case

[jitter]

Duplicate of #5241.

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Just in case anyone's going crazy like me, this DID work in before 1.5. I do not object to this ticket being closed for the reason cited--I just want to put others at ease who have discovered the change in behavior as I have.