diff --git a/lib/hyperscript/tokenizer.sx b/lib/hyperscript/tokenizer.sx
index 4824b51d..a8ac771b 100644
--- a/lib/hyperscript/tokenizer.sx
+++ b/lib/hyperscript/tokenizer.sx
@@ -538,7 +538,8 @@
                     (= (hs-peek 1) "#")
                     (= (hs-peek 1) "[")
                     (= (hs-peek 1) "*")
-                    (= (hs-peek 1) ":")))
+                    (= (hs-peek 1) ":")
+                    (= (hs-peek 1) "$")))
                 (do (hs-emit! "selector" (read-selector) start) (scan!))
                 (and (= ch ".") (< (+ pos 1) src-len) (= (hs-peek 1) "."))
                 (do (hs-emit! "op" ".." start) (hs-advance! 2) (scan!))