Question

I plan to use dojo.query to get some elements by their name attribute from a page. However, since the value of name comes from the back-end, there might be some illegal characters, like +, != and so on.

Is there a list of what characters are allowed? I plan to replace the invalid ones with “” via Regular Expressions.

Answer 1

I think dojo will allow any valid HTML name

A name/id is valid html if:

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (“-“),
underscores (“_”), colons (“:”), and periods (“.”).

Source: http://www.w3.org