Sizzle.getText converts unbreakable space into whitespace on IE

[cyril.fluck@…]

There is a regression linked to changes made in Sizzle.getText. getText should make the difference between unbreakable space and whitespace.

This was working with jQuery 1.6.4.

[anonymous]

I have a fix and made a pull request  https://github.com/Cyril-sf/sizzle/commit/a33fc1f47a838fb6d625eb73291205661393f2d2t

[addyosmani]

The PR you're referencing doesn't appear to be a valid URL. Could you repost with more information?

[cyril.fluck@…]

Here are the commits fixing this issue  https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/pull/91/commits

In IE7 with jQuery 1.6.4, using getText on an element having an unbreakable space (   ) would return a string containing an unbreakable space (code 160). With jQuery 1.7.1, the same getText method replaces   by a regular whitespace (code 32).

The reason is the Sizzle.getText method is using now innerText instead of nodeValue.

[cyril.fluck@…]

You can run this on IE and switch from jQuery 1.6.4 to 1.7.1 to see the different character code that is returned for the unbreakable space

 http://jsfiddle.net/PREjM/5/

[dmethvin]

Another result of the 1.7 Sizzle.getText() change for oldIE.

[timmywil]

This no longer applies as we no longer use innerText.