4.1.1 ID tests fail with "." in ID's

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4.1.1 ID tests fail with "." in ID's

opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Several tests will look for elements based on their ID, including:

documentIDsMustBeUnique
idRefHasCorrespondingId
idrefsHasCorrespondingId

I'm not sure if any others do. What happens here is that the ID gets passed into a selector: $('#' + id);
This can fail when ID's contain values meaningful to CSS such as a period (.), such as an ID like id_0.123 We should make sure strings that are put into a selector are escaped.

Wilco Fiers · Answer 1 · Thu Jun 18 2015 19:53:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Whoops, wrong account. This above was me :)

J. Renée Beach · Answer 2 · Tue Jun 30 2015 14:40:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

arg, good point :/

grumble grumble HTML ID spec...