On Jul 8, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Chris Taylor wrote: > I've been using the dash and period in ID names a lot recently (part > of an unobtrusive DOM scripting set of functions I've been developing)
> and not found any problems yet in any of the Win browsers. Whether IDs > formatted like this "functionName.-fe-4r-6s-ef-s5-ef.2000" will work > in older browsers or different operating systems I'm kind of crossing > my fingers about! Ben Curtis replied: > By "not found any problems" I assume you mean that these IDs are only > referenced by your script, and not the CSS. JS only requires that IDs are > strings. Trying to assign styles to your elements via CSS would be > > problematic, since each period would be interpreted as a class name > indicator, and your middle classname starts with a hyphen (an illegal > start). But if you are only accessing the info via JS, then it should be > fine. Absolutely, and although it would be better to be able to use these IDs for CSS, at the moment it's not essential. Actually, I could have modified the IDs so they didn't have dashes in, but my JavaScript skills gave up at that point. Chris ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
