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#14530 closed bug (notabug)
Opened November 11, 2013 01:38AM UTC
Closed December 30, 2013 05:09PM UTC
elem.text("text") does not work for textNodes
| Reported by: | jRubinator@gmail.com | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.10.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
jQuery's mutator method for textNode.text() does not change the textContent of the textNode
See http://jsfiddle.net/4epJ6/2/ (this assumes your are not using IE, as it uses .textContent instead of .innerText to demonstrate the issue)
For most API calls, only an Element (
.nodeType===1) has full standing in a jQuery collection. The docs don't imply that the.text()method works with text nodes, so this is not a bug but a feature enhancement.I'm concerned that if we add the special-case code to do this, it will just lead to more requests to give text nodes full standing with a requisite increase in size, for very little benefit.
Perhaps someone could do a survey of the API to see where we would need to change, and determine if that concern is warranted? Lacking that I'm not in favor of adding this feature.