1151278 - copy unique selector on identifiers with special characters is lacking backslashes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[Ruben]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150321180055

Steps to reproduce:

I select the unique identifier in firefox developer mode on the date span in "Firmware 0.6 January 07, 2015 " on http://luebeck.freifunk.net/2015/01/07/announce-0.6.html



Actual results:

I get: 

  heading > div:nth-child(1) > div:nth-child(1) > h1:nth-child(1) > span="postdate":nth-child(1)


Expected results:

This doesn't work, because firefox doesn't add backslashes on `"` and `=`

It would work though, if I use backslashes, so the easyest way to access only that falsy span is to add this: 

h1 > span\=\"postdate\":nth-child(1) {
  font-size: 0.3em;
}

see also: stackoverflow.com/questions/29424101/modify-css-for-a-span-with-equalsign

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

As mentioned on stackoverflow, the HTML used here is invalid. Moreover the original page is no longer using this structure, and no other developer tool attempts to support this syntax. 

WONTFIX in my opinion, please reopen if you feel another way.

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