- From: Tab Atkins Jr. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:51:45 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> It seems that the thing I'm ACTUALLY missing which you seem to have ACCIDENTALLY gotten right in your attempt to point out a typo rather than give an actual explanation
Snark is neither appreciated nor useful.
> is the use of String.raw instead of a plain string. Also doesn't help non-JavaScript selection, but at least this is something.
Yeah, note that you need to escape the backslash *both* at the JS *and* the CSS level if you're putting this in querySelector(), because it gets parsed by both languages. Without `String.raw`, you thus have to double-escape, like `querySelector('[data-path^="c:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\system32\\\\mspaint.exe"]')`, which just gets a bit silly.
Inside of a stylesheet you only need to escape it once, since only CSS will be parsing it, so `[data-path^="c:\\WINDOWS..."]` is fine.
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