parent > child selector doesn't work as expected if the child tag is an id that isn't unique

[piev]

$('#id1 > #id2') does not return the existing object if its id ("id2") isn't unique.

Example:

<div id="test1">something goes here</div>

<div id="localHolding">

<div id="test1">Hello World</div>

<div id="test2">Hello Universe</div>

</div>

Then in the script section: $('#localHolding > #test1').length=0;

Note: Previous versions (1.2.6) did handle this as expected.

[piev]

html file illustrating unexpected behaviour (bug)

[ajpiano]

This ticket should be marked as invalid. The id attribute is required to be unique.

[john]

This is going to have to be something that we'll punt on. In 1.2.6 #id1 > #id2 would fail if there were multiple #id1s, since in 1.3 we work right to left we just fail the other way around. We're going to have to pass on this, for performance reasons.