4999 2007-09-01 03:40:15 +0000 Validator fails to detect and report id selector starting with hyphen followed by a digit 2009-02-10 14:20:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator CSS 2.1 CSS Validator PC All RESOLVED FIXED http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE7Bugs/HyphenFollowedByADigitInIdentifiers.html P2 normal --- 1 info dave.null www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 16342 0 info 2007-09-01 03:40:15 +0000 CSS validator, profile 2.1, incorrectly reports validity for case of id selector starting with hyphen followed by a digit. Steps to reproduce ------------------ 1. Load provided URL 2. Submit to CSS validator (profile CSS 2.1) : http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gtalbot.org%2FBrowserBugsSection%2FMSIE7Bugs%2FHyphenFollowedByADigitInIdentifiers.html&amp;warning=2&amp;profile=css21&amp;usermedium=all or just click the CSS button in that page Actual results -------------- CSS validator reports Your stylesheet validated (French: "Votre feuille de style CSS validée") : #-2bar, .two { color : red; background-color : white; } Expected results ---------------- The CSS validator should detect the id selector starting with an hyphen followed by a digit and then reject the css rule based on known parsing rules and report a parse error for that css rule. References ---------- CSS 2.1, Section 4.1.3 Characters and case (identifiers) says: "in CSS, identifiers (including element names, classes, and IDs in selectors) can contain only the characters [a-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters U+00A1 and higher, plus the hyphen (-) and the underscore (_); they cannot start with a digit, or a hyphen followed by a digit." http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-identifier CSS 2.1, Section 4.1.1 tokenization http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization and CSS 2.1, G.2 Lexical scanner http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html#scanner both gives ident -?{nmstart}{nmchar}* nmstart [_a-z]|{nonascii}|{escape} Please note that I reported this issue at bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12385 and at bugzilla.webkit.org http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14373 16352 1 info 2007-09-03 21:42:56 +0000 Same findings with one testpage of the latest (August 4th 2007) CSS 2.1 testsuite: URL: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS2.1/current/html4/t040103-ident-03-c.htm CSS validation: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FStyle%2FCSS%2FTest%2FCSS2.1%2Fcurrent%2Fhtml4%2Ft040103-ident-03-c.htm&warning=1&profile=css21&usermedium=all Returned result from CSS validator reporting "Valid CSS Information": #-1ident, .four { color : red; } (...) .-1ident, .five { color : green; } In both cases, the selectors starting with hyphen followed with a digit should be detected, rejected and reported as parse errors. 23510 2 ylafon 2009-02-06 16:57:43 +0000 In #-1ident, .four { color : red; } #-1ident matches the HASH production which is defined as # <NAME> (see "#"{name} {return HASH;} in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/grammar.html ) or name is defined by {nmchar}+ containing [0-9], so it is correct according t the grammar. I will check with the CSS WG. 23623 3 ylafon 2009-02-10 14:20:29 +0000 Fixed on http://qa-dev.w3.org:8001/css-validator/