diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 0cc1db6..018bd56 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor
 ## not yet published, version 6.4.0
 
 - Replaces CSS with SASS internally, improvements in styling. Thanks @ppetkow.
+- Fixed #761: JSON schema errors not rendered in the gutter for mode `code`
+  when the path contained a property with a forward slash, and errors not
+  clickable in the error table.
 
 
 ## 2019-08-15, version 6.3.0
diff --git a/src/js/util.js b/src/js/util.js
index 8876065..a825b31 100644
--- a/src/js/util.js
+++ b/src/js/util.js
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ exports.getPositionForPath = function(text, paths) {
 
   paths.forEach(function (path) {
     var pathArr = me.parsePath(path);
-    var pointerName = pathArr.length ? "/" + pathArr.join("/") : "";
+    var pointerName = exports.compileJSONPointer(pathArr);
     var pointer = jsmap.pointers[pointerName];
     if (pointer) {
       result.push({
@@ -1155,6 +1155,21 @@ exports.getPositionForPath = function(text, paths) {
   
 }
 
+/**
+ * Compile a JSON Pointer
+ * WARNING: this is an incomplete implementation
+ * @param {Array.<string | number>} path
+ * @return {string}
+ */
+exports.compileJSONPointer = function (path) {
+  return path
+      .map(p => ('/' + String(p)
+          .replace(/~/g, '~0')
+          .replace(/\//g, '~1')
+      ))
+      .join('');
+};
+
 /**
  * Get the applied color given a color name or code
  * Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6386090/validating-css-color-names/33184805
diff --git a/test/util.test.js b/test/util.test.js
index 8e272bb..d1d8c84 100644
--- a/test/util.test.js
+++ b/test/util.test.js
@@ -450,5 +450,12 @@ describe('util', function () {
     assert.strictEqual(util.limitCharacters('hello world', 100), 'hello world');
   })
 
+  it('should compile a JSON pointer', function () {
+    assert.strictEqual(util.compileJSONPointer(['foo', 'bar']), '/foo/bar')
+    assert.strictEqual(util.compileJSONPointer(['foo', '/~ ~/']), '/foo/~1~0 ~0~1')
+    assert.strictEqual(util.compileJSONPointer(['']), '/')
+    assert.strictEqual(util.compileJSONPointer([]), '')
+  });
+
   // TODO: thoroughly test all util methods
 });
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