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How To Properly Escape Attribute Values In Css/js Attribute Selector [attr=value]?

How should I escape attributes in the css/js attibute selector [attr=value]? Specifically, is this correct? document.querySelector('input[name='test[33]']') I'm looking for the 's

Solution 1:

Yes, that is one correct approach. The Selectors Level 3 specification states the following:

Attribute values must be CSS identifiers or strings.

The example in your question uses a string as the attribute value. An "identifier" is defined as follows:

In CSS, identifiers... can contain only the characters [a-zA-Z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters U+00A0 and higher, plus the hyphen (-) and the underscore (_); they cannot start with a digit, two hyphens, or a hyphen followed by a digit. Identifiers can also contain escaped characters and any ISO 10646 character as a numeric code...

So following that, it is also legal to escape the special characters and omit the quotes:

document.querySelector('input[name=test\\[33\\]]')

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