how to specify richfaces/html tags in a css stylesheet for id values containing a colon, e.g. id="AAA:BBB:tu"

when richfaces renders IDs in html, often they contain colons like this:

<table id="AAA:BBB:tu"...

when i try using that id in a css stylesheet like this:

#AAA:BBB:tu td {
    display:none;
}

it doesn't work. however THIS works, both in firefox and internet explorer 10:

table[id='AAA:BBB:tu'] td {
    display:none;
}


thanks so much to handling css id and classes with spaces