//jquery.escape 1.0 - escape strings for use in jQuery selectors
//http://ianloic.com/tag/jquery.escape
//Copyright 2009 Ian McKellar <http://ian.mckellar.org/>
//Just like jQuery you can use it under either the MIT license or the GPL
//(see: http://docs.jquery.com/License)
(function() {
escape_re = /[#;&,\.\+\*~':"!\^\$\[\]\(\)=>|\/\\]/;
jQuery.escape = function jQuery$escape(s) {
var left = s.split(escape_re, 1)[0];
if (left == s) return s;
return left + '\\' + 
 s.substr(left.length, 1) + 
 jQuery.escape(s.substr(left.length+1));
}
})();