Sounds good. Too bad my ids are given by an external xml-file. But since I wrote a workaround to replace all . in the ids with _ it's fine for me ;).
Thanks Cheers On Jan 22, 4:13 pm, Liam Potter <radioactiv...@gmail.com> wrote: > jQuery will read it as id "test2" with the class "3" > > While periods are allowed in the attribute I would advise against them, > as it's not just jQuery that could struggle with them but most CSS as > well, as #test2.3 with again read as id "test2" with the class "3". > > > > Finn Herpich wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > the attached example-code shows a problem I encountered today (firebug > > needed). > > > If an id-attribute contains dots, like > > <p id="test2.3"></p> > > jQuery isn't able to find it. > > If the dots are replaced by underscores everything works fine. > > > Afaik there is no limitation for the id which prohibit dots as a used > > symbol, so I guess this is a bug or for some reason not wanted? > > > Cheers
