Special characters in CSS selectors [closed]

Answer 1

Normally, you wouldn't need to escape any special characters in CSS. This is because most CSS selector characters (., >, +, ~, #, :, etc) are not valid in id attributes or tag names, and they are rarely used in class names.

The only notable exception is a namespaced element in the form , which is more commonly seen in Internet Explorer. To target those elements, you can escape the : character. For example, VML objects have their behavior defined as follows:

v\:* { behavior: url(#default#vml); }