hide function broken in Safari on elements not in DOM (see example)

[remysharp]

var p = $('<p>test</p>').hide();
alert(p[0].style.display);

In Firefox, correctly displays 'none', in Safari this is blank. The effect is when preparing a new element to fade in to the page the fade doesn't work in Safari (because it's already fully visible).

Tested with jQuery 1.1.3a, Firefox 2 and Safari 2 on OS 10.4 and IE7.

Work around:

var p = $('<p>test</p>').css('display', 'none');
alert(p[0].style.display);

[davidserduke]

This problem here is that jQuery reports the newly created element as :hidden so when hide() is called it essentially just returns. There is quite a bit of code in curCSS() (which :hidden uses) that is special cased to Safari in an attempt to handle how it returns its current CSS, but apparently this is one case where it fails.

There is an easy work around for this bug as stated above. I'm going to leave it open for now but personally I think the risks at this point of fixing this minor bug outweigh the gain of fixing it.

[flesler]

Could you retest this with jQuery 1.2.4 ?

[remysharp]

Test failed. I've attached a test to this ticket, but also uploaded it here:

 http://remysharp.com/demo/safari-display-bug.html

I did propose a fix for it a little while ago, but the change was deep inside the core jQuery library and I wasn't confident enough to make the change without a second opinion:

 http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/9695ea22968d98b3/ef45b65f3ceb2e81

[remysharp]

Demo of Safari display prop bug. Result should say: 'none'

[john]

Fixed in SVN rev [5980].