That's kind of what I meant to say.
>From my understanding, the CDATA rules apply if you are serving XHTML
as application/xhtml+xml. If you are serving as text/html it is
implied you are being backwards compatible, so you should go by the
HTML4 rules where only A-z,0-9,._- characters are allowed.
Anyway I was just being picky. Everybody uses { in class attributes
for metadata already, and most browsers (even the ones that don't
support XHTML as application/xml) don't have a problem with that, I
don't know how far down the chain that becomes a problem (IE5?).
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_8
What I really wanted to say is 'why are these lunatics putting
brackets in IDs/names? there are plenty of unused/unmeaningful
characters to choose' ;)
- ricardo
On Oct 21, 4:34 pm, jasonkarns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In XHTML, the name attribute on input (and textarea and select)
> elements is defined as CDATA not NMTOKEN thus, brackets are legal in
> name attributes on input elements. It is NOT backwards compatible with
> HTML, where the character restriction is [a-z][A-Z]-_ and .
>
> Further note, the id attribute has it's own separate set of
> restrictions that are a subset of all HTML attributes.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt...http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt...http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dt...
>
> ~Jason
>
> On Oct 21, 12:07 pm, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Brackets are an invalid character in attributes, for XHTML served as
> > text/html, which I guess accounts for most of jQuery usage anyway.
> > Looks like someone already updated the docs.
>
> > - ricardo
>
> > On Oct 20, 11:36 pm, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > We got a ticket about how to select elements by an attribute with
> > > brackets.
> > > I replied with the common link to the FAQ and the reporter replied
> > > that the example in the docs doesn't work.
>
> > > I tried that myself, and indeed, that didn't work.
>
> > >http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3443
>
> > > $('[name=foo[bar]]'); // Doesn't work
>
> > > $('[name=foo\\[bar\\]]'); // Should work, but doesn't
>
> > > $('[name="foo[bar]"]'); // Does work
>
> > > Now... I think the last option is good enough. But we need to update
> > > the docs.
>
> > > Anything to add ?
> > > Anyone volunteers to update the docs ?
>
> > > Cheers
>
> > > --
> > > Ariel Fleslerhttp://flesler.blogspot.com/
