Follow up: Tom, I think I found the ticket you mentioned (#8598) but it references a Ruby class.
Some tests on the offending regex led me to discover that only a small tweak was needed in order to support brackets. Patch with unit tests here: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/9157/AttributesWithBrackets.diff#preview Ken Snyder Tom Gregory wrote: > Might be a bug. Another user reported a similar problem on July 11th, > and no good resolution was offered. > > Search for a ticket. If you don't find one, I think it's worth > opening one. > > > TAG > > On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Ken Snyder wrote: > > >> I'm trying to do an attribute selector with a bracket, but am >> getting an >> error in IE7, FF2 on Win (see below). Are brackets in attribute >> selectors disallowed? Can I escape brackets somehow? Or maybe >> this is >> a bug? >> >> I'm calling $$('input[name="perms[9][]"]'); >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ken Snyder >> >> >> >> Firebug backtrace when calling $$('input[name="perms[9][]"]'): >> - template has no properties >> initialize(undefined, undefined) >> create() >> attr(["[9]", "9", undefined, 4 more...]) <-- looks like a regex that >> doesn't allow brackets >> compileXPathMatcher() >> compileMatcher() >> initialize("input[name="perms[9][]"]") >> create() >> findChildElements(Document perms.php, ["input[name="perms[9][]"]"]) >> $$() >> toggleByItem(9) >> onclick(click clientX=0, clientY=0) >> this.template = template.toString(); >> >> >> I'm using it in a situation where I have a matrix of checkboxes >> with an >> "all" button column. Simplified example here: >> http://snippetsnap.com/snippets/354 (Note please ignore the space >> in "$ >> $()"--snippetsnap.com can't handle "$$()" for some reason) >> >> For now, I've switched to using tr ids to identify the checkboxes, but >> using the name attribute is nice because it is less markup. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
