It's not useful to claim that the specs are faulty. Until they change, dots in IDs are legal and valid.
JK -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ricardobeat Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:21 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: dot separated id Yeah, that's a fault in the specs. XHTML specs also allow dots in IDs: 'only strings matching the pattern [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used.' - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_8 But that causes problems for CSS too: <div id="tom" class="cat"> <div id="tom.cat"> #tom.cat { which one are you referring to? } - ricardo On Oct 16, 7:41 pm, "Mauricio \(Maujor\) Samy Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Specs at link pointed out says: > ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed > by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), > colons (":"), and periods ("."). > > Aren't dots and periods the same? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- > > double backslashes are the short term fix, but remember for the long > term that dots are illegal in ID's and will cause your page to not > validate. > > seehttp://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-namefor reference. > > -micah
