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#4394 closed bug (invalid)
Opened March 20, 2009 07:56PM UTC
Closed October 27, 2010 11:03PM UTC
Last modified October 27, 2010 11:17PM UTC
Jquery 1.3.2 (Sizzle) cannot use attribute selectors with an odd number of apostrophes in the values.
| Reported by: | benjamin.keil@finant | Owned by: | john |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 1.4 |
| Component: | selector | Version: | 1.3.2 |
| Keywords: | quotes | Cc: | benjamin.keil@finantix.com |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Given some elements with apostrophe's in their attribute values:
$("body").append("<span title='James's'>Here</span>");
$("body").append("<span title='St. James's Places'>There</span>");
I expect $("[title=\\"James's\\"]").text() to be "Here" and $("[title=\\"St. James's Place\\"]).text() to be "There".
In the first case what I get (with various attempts at escaping the apostrophe) is:
|| $("[title=\\"James's\\"]").text() || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title="James's"] ||
|| $("[title=\\"James's\\"]").text(); || "" ||
|| $("[title=James's]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James's] ||
|| $("[title=James\\'s]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James's] ||
|| $("[title=James\\\\'s]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: title=James\\'s] ||
Trying for the second one, I get slightly different exceptions:
|| $("[title=\\"St. James's Place\\"]").text(); ||Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place"] ||
|| $("[title=\\"St. James's Place\\"]").text(); || "" ||
|| $("[title=St. James's Place]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place] ||
|| $("[title=St. James\\'s Place]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place] ||
|| $("[title=St. James\\\\'s Place]").text(); || Syntax error, unrecognized expression: Place] ||
If, however, I use an even number of apostrophes, then all is well:
$("body").append("<span title='St. James's' Place'>Yonder</span>");
|| $("[title=St. James's' Place]").text(); || "Yonder" ||
|| $("[title=\\"St. James's' Place\\"]").text(); || "Yonder" ||
|| $("[title=St. James\\'s\\' Place]").text(); || "Yonder" ||
|| $("[title='St. James\\'s\\' Place']").text(); || "Yonder" ||
Even $("[title='St. James's' Place']").text() results in "Yonder", which I find surprising.
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Change History (3)
Changed March 21, 2009 01:19AM UTC by comment:1
| component: | unfilled → selector |
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| keywords: | → quotes |
| owner: | → john |
Changed October 27, 2010 11:03PM UTC by comment:2
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
The best part is that the value of the second span'a title attr is "St. James's Places"... but you actually test for "St. James's Place" - you're missing an "s".
Please be more careful in the future
Changed October 27, 2010 11:17PM UTC by comment:3
ALSO... There is a typo here as well:
'''$("[title=\\"St. James's Place\\"]).text()'''