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-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 stuck somewhere on the underscores
> and ignores the rule.  I can't change the underscores because it is .net
> generated - even though yes, I know that underscores are not recommended as
> id values.  Can anyone help me on how I would get around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rachel
>
> p.s. I don't have the option of ditching IE support!!
>
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