tibanna.util = new Object();

/* 
 * Function escapeSelector(selectee);
 * Used to escape strings with some JQuery special characters.
 */
tibanna.util.esc = function(c) { return tibanna.util.escapeSelector(c); }
tibanna.util.escapeSelector = function(selectee){
	var specialCharacters=[".", "/", "~"];
	var result = selectee;
	for (i = 0; i<specialCharacters.length; i++){
		var rexp = new RegExp("\\"+specialCharacters[i], "g");
		result = result.replace(rexp, "\\"+specialCharacters[i]);
	}
	return result;
}