I have a HTML fomr which uses special characters in ids ( :,-,_ ). The form uses JQuery validation plugin to validate the user input. Specifically the id includes a GUID Following is the sample code:
<script src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/jquery-validate/jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#respondForm').validate({ onclick: false,
onkeyup: false,
onfocusout: false,
highlight:
function(element, errorClass) {
$(element).css({ backgroundColor: '#FFFF88' });
}
,
errorLabelContainer: $("ul", $('div.error-container')),
wrapper: 'li',
rules: { Input:_CDD66FA6-D190-434D-AF51-8272F64E0646_14ecbb3f-c0e0-4caf-b03a-013d12118405:
{
required: true
, minlength: 5
, maxlength: 10
}
}
,
messages: { firstName:
{
required: "xxx_Required"
, minlength: "XXX Should be greater than 5"
, maxlength: "XXX Cannot be greater than 10"
}
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="/Home/Submit" method="post" id="respondForm">
<div>
<div class="error-container">
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" id="Input:_CDD66FA6-D190-434D-AF51-8272F64E0646_14ecbb3f-c0e0-4caf-b03a-013d12118405" name="Input:_CDD66FA6-D190-434D-AF51-8272F64E0646_14ecbb3f-c0e0-4caf-b03a-013d12118405" />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
<br />
</div>
</form>
As you can observe input type text element has the id/name as "Input:_CDD66FA6-D190-434D-AF51-8272F64E0646_14ecbb3f-c0e0-4caf-b03a-013d12118405"
If I run this page in the browser, I receive a JavaScript error:
Webpage error details
Message: Expected '}' Line: 23 Char: 50 Code: 0 URI: http://localhost:64603/
The error is pointing to this line:
function(element, errorClass) {
$(element).css({ backgroundColor: '#FFFF88' });
}
,
errorLabelContainer: $("ul", $('div.error-container')),
wrapper: 'li',
***[Line 23] -----> rules: { Input:_CDD66FA6-D190-434D-AF51-8272F64E0646_14ecbb3f-c0e0-4caf-b03a-013d12118405:***
How do I resolve this?