Support ID selectors with ":" in the middle

[atifaziz]

Hi,
On one of the Apple sites I have the following span I try to select:

<span id="theForm:slsERRtable">

There seems to be no way to do it using Fizzler. The Id is valid (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_standard_id.asp)

I've tried the followings:

• span#theForm:stserrtable : System.FormatException: Unknown pseudo-class 'slsERRtable'.
• span#theForm\:slsERRtable : System.FormatException: Invalid character at position 13. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122238/handling-a-colon-in-an-element-id-in-a-css-selector)
• span#theForm:\3AslsERRtable ul li : System.FormatException: Invalid character at position 14.

Thanks,
Corneliu.

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Originally reported on Google Code with ID 44

Reported by corneliu%[email protected] on 2011-02-28 21:18:59

[atifaziz]

I've attached a patch. There are 3 broken unit tests but they are broken because I've changed the sample html file not the code. I don't understand the selectors well enough to make sure that fixing the unit test does not make it a broken unit test.

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Reported by corneliu%[email protected] on 2011-02-28 21:40:45

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• Attachment: IdWithColonSelector.patch

[atifaziz]

Meanwhile the selector [id='theForm:slsERRtable'] can be used as a workaround.