Sent by Philippe Wittenbergh on 30 April 2011 08:08
On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>> That doesn't matter, as ID's starting with a leading digit are not
>> allowed in html4.01.
>
> Right, but this is really a formality - though a validator message is useful, as it makes the
author suspicious. As far as HTML processing is concerned, browsers don't seem to have problems with
id values starting with a digit, but they raise some issues in CSS.
My commenting on what HTML4.01 says was really nitpicking, in case you din't notice :-p. Browser
don't really care, afaik; and that is probably one reason why HTML5 doesn't make ID's starting with
a digit invalid.
>> The CSS selector is only valid when the (leading) digit is escaped…
>
> Yes, and that makes CSS code somewhat messy, so it's usually best to avoid id attribute values
that start with a digit, if you intend to use them in CSS.
Sure, I wouldn't advocate it either; I can picture all those flashy web-apps and friends though,
with tons of script generated ID's. Even then, I would recommend to prefix those ID's.
(on example: the Discuss commenting system attaches ID's to every possible element. They do prefix
them, afaict.)
>> but #\34col1 {background: lime;} is valid
>
> Well, technically it is valid, but it does not match id="4col1". The reason is that since "c" is a
hexadecimal digit, "34c" is taken as a hexadecimal number. To make the selector match id="4col1",
you can write it e.g. as
> \34 col1
> (i.e. with a space after "4").
Right, I intended to type that space there, obviously it didn't go beyond intention. Blame the
weather, or the wave, or something.
Philippe
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