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#4986 closed bug (fixed)

Opened July 28, 2009 11:44AM UTC

Closed July 28, 2009 12:22PM UTC

Changes to closest (#6507) breaks $(event.target).closest(...)

Reported by: jollytoad Owned by:
Priority: undecided Milestone: 1.4
Component: core Version: 1.3.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

The changes applied to closest() in http://dev.jquery.com/changeset/6507 break event handlers that use this pattern:

$('.container').bind('click', function(event) {

$(event.target).closest('.clickable').doSomething();

});

Demo:

http://jsbin.com/ataxe

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Change History (1)

Changed July 28, 2009 12:22PM UTC by john comment:1

component: unfilledcore
resolution: → fixed
status: newclosed
version: → 1.3.2

Backed out in SVN rev [6519].