YUI Selector with an id that is a long number

Question

I have two divs. One has an id that is a string representation of a long number. The other is a shorter string. If I use the YUI selector to query for these divs, it fails to find the one that has the long number as it's id.

Here's the jsfiddle:

Why does it not find the first div?

Thanks. SO automatically turned my "trivial answer" into a comment, and that was the result. Deleted. — Tim S. Van Haren, May 14 '12 at 17:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '12 at 17:16

Id can't start with a number, that's all.

Change from:

<div id='13367716691470000' style='display:none;'>test</div>

To:

<div id='foo13367716691470000' style='display:none;'>test</div>

Updated Fiddle

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 (".").

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YUI Selector with an id that is a long number

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