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Ticket #6948: jq_div_name.html
File jq_div_name.html, 1.1 KB (added by hasselback, August 26, 2010 01:50AM UTC)

Short HTML example of errors

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
function countStuff(){
		// Results for IE 7 only (tested in IE tester and IE8 compatibility mode)
		alert($('a[name="thename"]').length); // shows 1, correct - 'a' element ok
		alert($('div[class="theclass"]').length); // shows 1, correct - 'div' element by attribute:class ok
		alert($('div[name="thename"]').length); // shows 0, should be 1 !!!:
		
		alert($('.theclass[name="thename"]').length); //shows 1, should be 2 !!! - div element excluded
		alert($('.theclass').filter('[name="thename"]').length);// shows 2, correct - using filter selects both elements
}
</script>
</head>
 
<body>
	<div name='thename' class='theclass'>Content in a div</div>
	<a href='#' name='thename' class='theclass'>Content within a link</a>
  <p><a href='#' onclick='countStuff()'>CLICK HERE - Count stuff</a></p>
</body>
</html>

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