Sent by Ian Hickson on 16 January 2003 18:06
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Saila, Craig wrote:
>
> Porter Glendinning wrote:
>> At 11:42 AM 1/16/2003, Saila, Craig digitized these thoughts:
>>> Even more fun:
>>> <div id="something.new:before">Content</div>
>> [snip]
>> I believe the technically correct way to handle ids with special
>> characters like that is to escape them in your selectors:
>>
>> #something\.new\:before { color: red; content: "nothing"; }
>
> Riiiight... Seems to work in Mozilla and Opera, thanks.
>
> Interestingly, Opera 7b2 adds "nothing" to the now red DIV, but removes
> "Content". Mozilla 1.3a makes it red, but doesn't add "nothing"...
Opera's behaviour is correct per proposed CSS3.
Mozilla's behaviour is correct per CSS2.
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