colon in css definition name

etpaguia

hi everybody,

Need help! Is there a way to escape the : character in a css definition
name?

#checkUsername:Messages {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
background-color:#FFFFCC;
color: #f00;
font-size: 12px;
border : 1 solid F00;
}

I encounter this ID naming convention with : char in JavaServerFaces
elements. THe elements are tightly coupled with the IDs and this is how
it is rendered to HTML.

Thanks,
Eson.

Jun 14 '06 #1

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David Dorward

et******@gmail.com wrote:

Need help! Is there a way to escape the : character in a css definition
name?

Second bullet point: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#q4

Jun 14 '06 #2

Jukka K. Korpela

David Dorward <do*****@gmail.com> scripsit:

et******@gmail.com wrote:
Need help! Is there a way to escape the : character in a css
definition name?

Second bullet point: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#q4

Now that you taught the OP to fish, I could give a fish, mainly to help to
check that the (somewhat complex) text was understood correctly: there are
several ways to escape characters in CSS, but in cases like this, it
suffices to prefix the colon by the backslash (reverse solidus) character,
using \: instead of plain :.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Jun 14 '06 #3

sgollery

New Member

Jukka and David,

Sadly but not unexpectedly, the backslash escape works in Firefox but not in IE. For example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#first\:second {
color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<label id="first:second">This should be red</label>
</body>
</html>

prints in red in Firefox but not IE.

Are there any other ways to go that would work in more browsers?

Thanks,

Steve Gollery

Jul 12 '06 #4

sgollery

New Member

Answering my own question: use the hex:
#first\003Asecond

This works in both browsers

Jul 12 '06 #5

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