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SyntaxError: unmatched pseudo-class :foo

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@MatthewMueller

Trying to use cheerio to match against a custom HTML node receives that error.

Here is a simple test to try it out:

var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var markup = '<html><body><esi:foo attr="test"></esi:foo></body></html>';

var $ = cheerio.load(markup);
$('esi:foo').text();

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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redonkuluscommented, Apr 7, 2015

@fb55 double backslash fixed it. I originally tried one but not two, smh.

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fb55commented, Apr 7, 2015

Try escaping the colon with a backslash (which needs to be escaped itself with an additional backslash inside JS strings). Otherwise, it is parsed as a pseudo selector.

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