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Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#9625 closed enhancement (invalid)

Support full range of allowed IDs in HTML5

Reported by: ssp Owned by:
Priority: high Milestone: 1.next
Component: selector Version: 1.6.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

HTML5 seems to legalise all non-space characters for ID strings.

This creates a situation where you can have IDs which jQuery cannot match because its 'quickExpr' regular expression matches according to the more restrictive HTML4 standard.

See ​http://jsfiddle.net/2Zpn4/4/ for an example showing that document.getElementByID can return elements which JQuery cannot match.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Rick Waldron

Component: unfiled → selector
Priority: undecided → high

the /TR/ spec pages should not be used as reference as they are considered "trash" and exist only for record

The correct reference would be:

​http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#the-id-attribute

Last edited 9 years ago by Rick Waldron (previous) (diff)

comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Rick Waldron

As a note, attribute selectors _do_ work here:

​http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/2Zpn4/8/

comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by dmethvin

Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed

Just need to escape the special chars.

​http://jsfiddle.net/2Zpn4/6/

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