Re: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

2005-12-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Rachel Radford wrote: I'm working with a page that has auto-generated html from a .net engine that I then style up with css. In this case I need to reference one item on the page that has an id of #_1740__ctl2__1125. When I style this up in Firefox it works fine. But it seems that IE gets

Re: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Wong
I'd recommend not styling with the generated ids and using classes instead. On 12/9/05, Rachel Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if anyone else has come across the following problem and if > so, how they fixed it? > > I'm working with a page that has auto-generat

RE: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Rachel Radford > > page that has an id of #_1740__ctl2__1125 Just to follow up on the underscore thing... >From the W3C HTML 4.01 recommendation "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 ("-"), underscore

RE: [WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Rachel Radford > > one item on the page that has an id of #_1740__ctl2__1125 > in Firefox it works fine. IE gets stuck somewhere on > the underscores and ignores the rule ID and class names can't start with a number either, I wonder if that is part of the problem, after the underscore th

[WSG] styling auto-generated .net id values

2005-12-08 Thread Rachel Radford
Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone else has come across the following problem and if so, how they fixed it? I'm working with a page that has auto-generated html from a .net engine that I then style up with css. In this case I need to reference one item on the page that has an id of #_1740__ct