dojo.query fails to recognize attributes having certain kinds of brackets in their values

[ptwobrussell]

If you have an attribute value that contains square brackets, dojo.query fails to match on it. Example: <input name="data[foo][bar]"> wont match with a selector of dojo.query("input[name=data[foo][bar]]"). I totally realize this is an edge case, but it did come up in production work. (CakePHP (no, don't worry, I'm not using it by choice), in particular, likes form fields to be named like data[X], so that's how it came up. Maybe there are others out there too.)

Tried this with 1.3.0.

[James Burke]

With latest trunk code, using this type of query (adding escape characters to the query):

dojo.query("input[name=data\\[foo\\]\\[bar\\]]")

works in FF 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome 3, Opera 10 and IE 8.

However IE 7 fails, and I expect IE6 might also.

[Thomas Bachem]

Works perfectly for me, you just have to use proper CSS selector escaping:

dojo.query('input[name="data[foo][bar]"]')

[Chris Mitchell]

please review/triage

[ben hockey]

Duplicate of #7479.
2 reports of success and #7479 sounds similar so closing this ticket as a duplicate of 7479

[bill]

In [27956]:

test case for attributes with brackets (it's working, refs #9193.

[bill]

Like thomasbachem said, I think this was never a bug, just a user error. His test above works for me even in 1.3.

[bill]

In [27961]:

Check in fix from James for attribute values with dots and backslashes. Refs #9193, fixes #11189 !strict.