[Zope3-dev] Re: [Checkins] SVN: z3c.form/trunk/src/z3c/form/ HTML element ids containing dots are not very good, because then the

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 04 June 2007 15:41, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > >Log message for revision 76258:
> > >  HTML element ids containing dots are not very good, because then the
> > >  "element#id" CSS selector does not work
>
> FYI it works just fine (at least in Firefox) if you escape the dots:
>
>   element#id\.with\.dots
>
> I'm pretty sure it works in MSIE6 as well, but don't quote me on that.

Initially I had no luck finding the escape character. But googling for it 
again, the CSS specification defines the backslash as the escape character 
for CSS. Having said this, I find the backslash annoying, so I still like my 
solution better.

Regards,
Stephan
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