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Ticket #12131 (closed bug: invalid)
Syntax error, unrecognized expression: link
| Reported by: | spicyj | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | git |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocking: | Blocked by: |
Description
In IE8 I can't run .is(":link") without an error. It gives
Syntax error, unrecognized expression: link (stable jQuery) Syntax error, unrecognized expression: unsupported pseudo: link (edge jQuery)
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It isn't supported, as documented, on non-qSA browsers like IE8.
See https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/issues/44 for the feature request.