I second this suggestion. Most other meta-languages allow backslash-escaping, I don't see why it would be a bad idea here.
- Brian > I didn't like the idea of hacking jQuery to make selectors with these > special chars work, but as it turned out, that is what should be > expected! From the CSS spec: > > In CSS 2.1, a backslash (\) character indicates three types of > character escapes. > > [...] > > *Second, it cancels the meaning of special CSS characters.* Any > character (except a hexadecimal digit) can be escaped with a backslash > to remove its special meaning. For example, "\"" is a string consisting > of one double quote. Style sheet preprocessors must not remove these > backslashes from a style sheet since that would change the style sheet's > meaning. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q6 > > Thus, I think a selector like "#my\:elem" is perfectly valid and that > should be part of jQuery's selector engine... > > > > -- Klaus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
