There is a ticket for this: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/143
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Brandon Aaron
On 3/8/07, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you posted this on the developer list? That's probably a really
> good place for this post.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> manfred berry wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I wonder why jquery is using the : as seperator for custom selectors as this
> > is just another character which can be used in any element id.
> >
> > In other words this means that for example if I have an id="my:elem" this
> > element is the not selectable like $('#my:id') as the regexp on
> > line 949: re2 = /^([#.]?)([a-z0-9\\*_-]*)/i;) // jquery 1.1.1
> > does split that and uses the :elem as custom selector.
> >
> > You might now ask why am I using : as element id's.
> > The answer is pretty easy. JSF uses a : to automatically generate element
> > id's in HTML and that's unfortuntely not changeable. And I have to use jsf.
> >
> > But I really like jquery a lot and would love to use it in my future
> > projects together with JSF.
> >
> > Any way that for example, before splitting the id and use the 2nd part of
> > the id as custom selector do a search for the full ID as specified, and if
> > no element is found fall back to the custome selector way of splitting?
> >
> > Or even better that the custom selector character could be configurable?
> >
> > Would you guys (jquery members) consider that as an option if I would send a
> > patch for that for future releases?
> > I prefere to go with official releases as otherwise updating to newer
> > versions gets a pain....
> >
> >
> > Tx for your help.
> >
>
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