[jQuery] Re: selecting elements containing colons

Klaus, >Still there's an important difference between the two issues. A colon in >an id is just a character and in a selector you would have to use the >backslash to escape it. "Elements with colons in them" belong to a >certain namespace (the name of the namespace is everything in front of >the

[jQuery] Re: selecting elements containing colons

Dan G. Switzer, II schrieb: Sean, I know that jQuery made the decision not to allow selection of elements with colons in them, however it is valid XML. Here is an example piece of code I am getting back from an ajax call: Free chicken!news:special> Any ideas how I can select

[jQuery] Re: selecting elements containing colons

Sean, >I know that jQuery made the decision not to allow selection of >elements with colons in them, however it is valid XML. Here is an >example piece of code I am getting back from an ajax call: > > >Free chicken!news:special> > > >Any ideas how I can select the news:special item?