mathiasbynens / mathiasbynens/cssesc
Feature Request: shouldEscape/isEscaped
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- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 176
- Forks
- 21
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Description
Can this library provide a shouldEscape / isEscaped function for cases that you get an Identifier from user input and want to know if it should be escaped?
This is needed because if you blindly escape everything you can end up with double escaping.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue, so begin by locating the library's public API and existing identifier-escaping tests. Done means the library exposes a defined shouldEscape/isEscaped behavior that avoids double escaping for identifiers originating from user input, with tests covering the intended cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100