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#3713 closed enhancement (fixed)
Opened December 13, 2008 03:24PM UTC
Closed February 18, 2009 04:25PM UTC
DOM manipulations on elements not in the DOM
| Reported by: | scottgonzalez | Owned by: | john |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.3 |
| Component: | core | Version: | 1.2.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | john | |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
The following works:
$('<div></div>').wrap('<div></div>');
The following fails:
$('<div></div>').appendTo('body').remove().wrap('<div></div>');
The former works because jQuery.clean wraps the created elements in a div, but the div is never removed. Wrap, insertBefore, etc. should probably be updated to work on elements not in the DOM.
If you think it's necessary, you might want to create another ticket to have jQuery.clean remove the extra wrappers it creates.
Now it seems like this should be pretty easy. When doing the wrapping just skip the "append to parentNode" step. The element will still be disconnected from the DOM - but that's ok since that's what the intent was.