Ah, I actually confused Micah's and Ricardo's answers. Micah was claiming dots are illegal in IDs, referencing the w3 spec, which Ricardo then pointed out as faulty.
Personally I don't use anything but \w in IDs, but I felt it was important to point out using a dot in the ID does not make illegal markup. JK -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Methvin Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:54 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: dot separated id > It's not useful to claim that the specs are faulty. Until they change, dots > in IDs are legal and valid. Re-read Ricardo's answer. You are free to use dots in your ids if you want. He is saying that by permitting a dot in an id string, the specs allow a confusing ambiguity that has to be resolved somehow. The W3C says this:
