You need to make the change that is suggested in one of the comments of the ticket ( http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/143#comment:11 ) before it will work.
Karl Rudd On 3/22/07, Adriano Bonat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried: > > $( '#item\.x' ) > $( '#item\:x') > $( "#item\\:x" ) > > and I always get an Object, but calling, for example, html(), always > returns null. > > Thanks. > > > On 3/21/07, Karl Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was discussed a week or two ago. There's a ticket open on it with > > at patch to fix it. > > > > http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/143 > > > > Basically it means that if you want to select #item:x you have to > > construct the selector like this: > > > > $( "#item\\:x" ) > > > > The double slashes are there because \: in a JavaScript string would > > just result in "#item:x". > > > > Karl Rudd > > > > On 3/22/07, Marc Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Adriano, > > > > > > This is very, very interesting! At first sight (and with > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-id in mind) this seems to > > > be a bug. List: Correct me, if I'm wrong? > > > > > > But: Even pure CSS-selectors seem to fail on your test-suite, though: > > > > > > For example, add this to <head> of your code: > > > > > > <style type="text/css"> > > > #item.x { background-color: red; } > > > #itemx { background-color: green; } > > > #item:x { background-color: blue; } > > > </style> > > > > > > Only the id without '.' and ':' gets a background-color (FF 2.0.0.2, IE > > > 6.0.2900, Opera 9.02). > > > > > > Strange, isn't it? > > > > > > -- Marc > > > > > > > > > Adriano Bonat schrieb: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I did a test case to show what is my problem: > > > > http://dpaste.com/7204/ > > > > > > > > I'm trying to use JQuery to get some elements with ids that contains > > > > '.' and ':', but that arent working, and with getElementById that's > > > > working. > > > > > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -Adriano > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > jQuery mailing list > > > > discuss@jquery.com > > > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > jQuery mailing list > > > discuss@jquery.com > > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jQuery mailing list > > discuss@jquery.com > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
