I recently found a bug that is present in jQuery 1.1.4, 1.2.1 and

today's nightly build. In essence, doing this:

$("div", some_html_string)

Can fail in some cases where a '\\n' was inserted in the string.

You can find a test case exercising the bug here

notes/jquery-html-string-bug.html.

The original thread: http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/browse_thread/thread/fa087c5e9e5d44d?hl=en