hidden/visible broken for td/th cells in ie8

[markw65]

In ie8, a td or th cell with style "display:none" appears to inherit the size of its parent tr. ie offsetWidth and offsetHeight return the width/height of the tr.

The result is that :hidden and :visible are broken for such cells.

[markw65]

I have an example at  http://maps.myosotissp.com/bugs/sort2.html.

The example is really to show how the same ie8 feature breaks sortable - but it reports the number of not(:hidden) td cells. In all browsers except ie8, it reports "nvis=6" (correct). In ie8, it reports "nvis=8".

There is a workaround. Adding "<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />" causes ie8 to report the correct result.

You can see this at  http://maps.myosotissp.com/bugs/sort2.html?ie7=1

[ElGrande]

We had a similar issue with visible filters like this:

find('> thead > tr:first > th:visible')

IE8 returned all elements including the elements with display:none

Our quick fix for this one:

In the file jquery.js you can find the visible filter code:

Sizzle.selectors.filters.visible = function(elem){
	return elem.offsetWidth > 0 || elem.offsetHeight > 0;
};

Add an additional condition to verify the display value.

Sizzle.selectors.filters.visible = function(elem){
	return (elem.offsetWidth > 0 || elem.offsetHeight > 0) && elem.style.display != 'none';
};

I guess there are more lines of code left to fix all issues. Reason for this is that IE8 stores width values for elements not visible.

[emartin24]

Just ran across this issue as well. Here is my little test case - it works in all browsers that I've tested, except IE8:

 http://jsbin.com/omoce/edit

[emartin24]

Duplicate of  http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4512

[john]

Duplicate of #4512.