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Escapes a string for use within a CSS selector as an identifier
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| function escapeSelector(selector) { | |
| return "".replace.call(selector, | |
| /(^[^_a-zA-Z\u00a0-\uffff]|[^-_a-zA-Z0-9\u00a0-\uffff])/g, | |
| "\\$1"); | |
| } | |
| // Use this to escape CSS identifiers that may contain reserved characters. | |
| // For example, in JQuery, to select the element whose identifier is named by the variable 'id': | |
| $('#' + escapeSelector(id)); | |
| // This works even if 'id' is something crazy like '+-~/!"£$%^&*([]'. |
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I've tried CSS.escape but didn't fit well, but thanks for all recommendations !!!