Re: Can identifier names start with a hyphen?

According to the spec (if I'm reading right), they can.

ident 	[-]?{nmstart}{nmchar}*

link:  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#tokenization

On 3/16/06, XStandard Vlad Alexander <lists@xstandard.com> wrote:
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> Sorry if this has already been asked. Can identifier names (classes and IDs) start with a hyphen?
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> This is why I got confused:
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> [spec source: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html]
> In CSS 2.1, identifiers  (including element names, classes, and IDs in selectors) can contain only the characters [A-Za-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters U+00A1 and higher, plus the hyphen (-) and the underscore (_); they cannot start with a digit, or a hyphen followed by a digit.
> [/spec]
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> That's clear. IDs like "-abc" are okay but "-0abc" are not. The spec then reads:
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> [spec source: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html]
> Only properties, values, units, pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements, and at-rules may start with a hyphen (-); other identifiers (e.g. element names, classes, or IDs) may not.
> [/spec]
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> This seems to contradict the previous statement and says that IDs like "-abc" are invalid.
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> I ran the following 2 rules through the W3C CSS validator and according to the validator, both are valid:
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> #-abc {color:red}
> #-0abc {color:red}
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> Thanks,
> -Vlad
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