Well, really, escaping the period just did it. Funny, as I was looking into
how to use the dot in the jquery selector I came across John Resing's blog
decrying the practice so I stop searching thinking that he's the authority
on the subject.
Thank you Bob.
sabob wrote:
>
> Hi Florin,
>
> According to HTML spec[1], using dots are allowed. It states:
>
> "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 (".")."
>
> So Click is within the limits here.
>
> Tackling the Velocity issue, you can access the map keys the same way
> you do in Java:
>
> $form.fields.get("address.state")
>
> There might be other ways to address this in Velocity?
>
>
> Regarding the jQuery issue, one problem is that CSS selectors only
> allows a subset[2] of valid HTML characters. For example DOT "." would
> be seen as a class identifier.
>
> Solutions exist though, for example you can escape the selector e.g:
> $('#form_address\\.zip'). Alternatively you can explicitly define an
> ID attribute for the field you want to access through JQuery.
>
> Wrt changing the notation the only alternative seems to use dash '-'.
> But when switching back all dashes will be converted to dots. I can
> imagine scenarios where a dash could in fact be part of the name and
> should not be switched. My feeling is that changing notation could
> lead to further problems.
>
>
> bob
>
>
> [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-name
> [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Underscores_in_class_and_ID_Names
>
>
> florin.g wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've avoided using the dot notation with forms, yet I've come across a
>> situation that would be best solved with the dot notation:
>>
>> customer.address.zip matches to "form_address.zip".
>>
>> The problem is that neither velocity nor jquery are happy with the dot
>> notation:
>>
>> $form.fields.address.zip would not do for velocity;
>> $('#form_address.zip') would not do for jquery;
>>
>> Is it possible we change the rendering of the notation as something else
>> than a period ("."). This notation will be switched back when velocity
>> will
>> lookup for request to object mapping?
>
>
>
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