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Bug 9167 - Must not contain periods(".") de id and class, (and posible not #, :, {) because is not accesible from CSS . example in html id="name.last" in CSS selectors is imposible to select it because will search form id name class last. In html is possible use
Summary: Must not contain periods(".") de id and class, (and posible not #, :, {) bec...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 9165 9166 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-02-27 21:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-02-27 21:51:48 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-id-attribute

Comment:
Must not contain periods(".") de id and class, (and posible not #, :, {) 
because is not accesible from CSS . example in html  id="name.last" in CSS 
selectors is imposible to select it because will search form id name class
last.  In html is possible use periods in the id and is not too coherent when
using CSS

Posted from: 88.2.233.124
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2010-02-28 10:35:38 UTC 
*** Bug 9165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2010-02-28 10:35:54 UTC 
*** Bug 9166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ms2ger 2010-02-28 10:37:33 UTC 
#abc\.def works. Also, this would be a problem for the Selectors specification, not for HTML.