Question

I am facing a strange scenario only in IE7 like,
adding a class to an ID.

$(idName).addClass("sel");

If my idName is short then I am not facing any issue but if it is very long then browser is hanging.

At the time of hanging, idName is like dateRange(2006,2007,2008,2009,2010)

Edited:

populatedID = "dateRange(2006,2007,2008,2009,2010)";
var idName = "li[id=\"" + populatedID + "\"]";
$(idName).addClass("sel");

Please suggest me any alternative to work with it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

that is an odd looking ID which would equate to id="dateRange(2006,2007,2008,2009,2010)" if it were in-line and thus invalid as ID can consist of only alpha numeric plus “-” and “_” and begin with an alpha

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-name