I found the problem... I was using the YUI selector to get the element, and when the uuid started with a number the CSS selector would fail. I just prepended some known text and now it works.
On May 17, 12:42 pm, Ian Reinhart Geiser <ian.gei...@gmail.com> wrote: > That doesn't seem to work with IE 8 when I try to get the element by > ID. If i use that web2py_uuid there it wont work, but if i use just > plain text it works. Could it be that IE dislikes the - characters in > the ID? > > On May 17, 12:13 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > I have used web2py_uuid for this purpose. > > > On May 17, 10:22 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser <ian.gei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there an easy way to generate unique element id properties for a > > > web2py created DIV? I saw web2py_uuid, but that did not look like a > > > good fit, or is it?