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#10573 closed bug (invalid)
Opened October 25, 2011 03:11PM UTC
Closed October 27, 2011 10:09PM UTC
exception in jQuery(selector [, conext])
Reported by: | ceddlyburge@gmail.com | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.7b2 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
This isn't exactly a bug but could maybe be handled better
If there is a <table> tag inside a <tr> tag, without an intervening <td> tag then jquery raises an exception when trying to do a selection on it. Other types of tags under a <tr> tag do not cause this problem.
jQuery selecting is also a bit unintuitive when there is not a root element to the passed in document, perhaps an informative error message would be useful here?
var invalidhtml = '<tr><form action="" method="post"><table><tr><td></td></tr></table></form></tr>'; var validhtml = '<tr><form action="" method="post"></form></tr>'; var validhtml2 = '<table><tr><td><form action="" method="post"><table><tr><td></td></tr></table></form></td></tr></table>'; var validhtml3 = '<tr><td><form action="" method="post"><table><tr><td></td></tr></table></form></td></tr>'; var form = $("form", validhtml); form = $("form", validhtml2); form = $("form", validhtml3); form = $("form", invalidhtml); // crash here in ie, or a silent fail in decent browsers
I couldn't get jsfiddle to run it but here is the link anyway, the code is right I think.
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Changed October 27, 2011 10:09PM UTC by comment:1
resolution: | → invalid |
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status: | new → closed |
Invalid HTML pretty much closes the ticket. Trying to anticipate and give reasonable error messages for every possible problem is just too difficult and takes a lot more code than we can afford to write.
Also, I should point out that there is no jQuery signature of the form
jQuery(selector, htmlstring)
.http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/