[jQuery] Re: jQuery selector question - Having : in attribute name

2009-01-14 Thread jQuery Lover
You can not have special character in attribute names. (it's not valid markup) Documentation is saying that your should escape VALUE bit if it contains special characters. - Read jQuery HowTo Resource - http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, naden

[jQuery] Re: jQuery selector question - Having : in attribute name

2009-01-14 Thread naden
Your right. The docs said: Note: if you wish to use any of the meta-characters described above as a literal part of a name, you must escape the character with two backslashes (\). For example: #foo\\:bar #foo\\[bar\\] #foo\\.bar and so I did. I used \\: to escape the : or I'm gettin you

[jQuery] Re: jQuery selector question - Having : in attribute name

2009-01-14 Thread jQuery Lover
Slightly :) You can not have special character in your html ATTRIBUTES. You should rename ajax:id to something else. Ex: ajax_id or ajaxId. - Read jQuery HowTo Resource - http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, naden n...@naden.de wrote: Your right.

[jQuery] Re: jQuery selector question - Having : in attribute name

2009-01-14 Thread naden
That sucks. jQuery has no problem with $( 'a' ).attr( 'ajax:id' ); Therefore it would be nice to use it in the selector too. thanks anyway have to change it. On 14 Jan., 14:05, jQuery Lover ilovejqu...@gmail.com wrote: Slightly :) You can not have special character in your html ATTRIBUTES.

[jQuery] Re: jQuery selector question - Having : in attribute name

2009-01-14 Thread Balazs Endresz
Just investigated it: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3729 The colon is valid I think, but it's true, there are some restrictions. On Jan 14, 2:27 pm, naden n...@naden.de wrote: That sucks. jQuery has no problem with $( 'a' ).attr( 'ajax:id' ); Therefore it would be nice to use it in the