On 7/1/05, Abrams, Howard A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Read Craig's reply again. It's not that colons are not allowed in *HTML, > it's that they are use by the naming container to separate the container's > id from the component's id. The HTML generated by JSF Renderers will have > colons in it. >
More specifically related to the ":" character, we needed to reserve a delimiter that could be used by naming containers to create compound identifiers Therefore, we needed to *not* allow that same character in JSF id values, so that there would be no ambiguities when you used it. Craig
