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CSS.escape()

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 46)

Intent stage

None

Summary

`CSS.escape()` serializes a string as a CSS identifier. This enables developers to easily and securely do things like escaping a string for use as part of a selector.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom/#the-css.escape%28%29-method
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331218

Docs: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes https://github.com/mathiasbynens/CSS.escape

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/css-escape/index.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS/escape

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