Jake McGraw wrote:
I'm pretty sure this is not a bug, how do you think user agents handle
the following:
HTML:
<a href="myanchor:hover">A bad ID string</a>
CSS:
a#myanchor:hover {color:#000;}
Will the anchor be black automatically or only when a cursor hovers over it?
According to CSS2 and above, colons are reserved for defining
psuedo-classes (:hover,:first-child, etc).
The document you're referencing below is a an older and broader guide of
what valid HTML (as a subset of SGML) is, but does not cover the
interpretation that must take place between CSS and (X)HTML documents.
- jake
Special characters with a certain meaning must be escaped with a
backslash if you need to use it in a selector. Your example:
a#myanchor\:hover
would select
<a id="myanchor:hover">
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#escaped-characters
There has been a ticket for this, but I don't know if and how this is fixed.
-- Klaus
