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#11019 closed bug (invalid)
Opened December 13, 2011 08:30PM UTC
Closed December 14, 2011 12:10AM UTC
.empty() on an empty elment deletes siblings.
| Reported by: | John@Irie-Inc.com | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | low | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | manipulation | Version: | 1.7.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Suppose you have a truly empty tag:
<span id="foo"/>
If you call $('#foo').empty() it will delete everything AFTER the span within the same parent element.
If the span is defined like this: <span id="foo"></span> then it works correctly.
Tested on Firefox 8.0.1. Tested in jQuery 1.6.1 and 1.7.1.
Here is a simple sample:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#foo').empty();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span id="foo"/>
This is after #foo.
</body>
</html>
Withdrawn. Turns out, on further inspection, that Firefox is doing something other than what you would expect. It is wrapping the span around the rest of the contents of the parent object.