Issue #4059๐Ÿ’ฌ AnsweredOpened Jan 8, 2022by miladmeidanshahi1 reactions

Selector escape function doesn't support tailwindcss classes

Quick answerby miladmeidanshahiโค 1

Sorry i found very late this config https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/blob/e52b5c29e4346dba7367b769a44d99a2226e025f/src/selector_manager/config/config.js#L17

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Question

GrapesJS version

  • I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS

What browser are you using?

Chrome v97

Describe the bug

At line https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/blob/dev/src/selector_manager/model/Selector.js#L171 the selector escape function doesn't allow / and . because of that we can't use some tailwind classes such as basis-1/2 and inset-0.5 ... .

maybe this /([^a-z0-9\w-\/.:]+)/gi regex help.

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Answers (2)

GJSBlockโ€ข May 17, 2026

Thanks for reporting this, @miladmeidanshahi. The issue with selector escape function doesn't support tailwindcss classes appears to be a race condition or state management timing problem. This typically happens when component lifecycle events and DOM modifications overlap, creating an inconsistent...

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