jQuery selectors search inside HTML comments, causing crashes and/or other errors

Consider this scenario:

<body>

</div>

</body>

this:

var str= $('small.b:first').text();

Will either crash FireFox (total lockup) or return an empty string depending on (something)

I'm using jQuery inside of GreaseMonkey, for whatever that is worth. But it appears this is a jQuery problem.

Attachments (2)

gmstub.user.js (0.6 KB) - added by MrPete January 04, 2010 03:45AM UTC.

GM stub excercising this bug
test.html (0.3 KB) - added by MrPete January 04, 2010 03:45AM UTC.

Small test HTML file for this bug

Change History (3)

Sorry about the non-code formatting. My first jQuery ticket :)

Update: AFAIK, this is NOT a crasher bug. I've isolated the crashes to another issue.

The effect still stands, as demonstrated in my attachments: selectors "see" nonexistent elements inside of HTML comments.

resolution:	→ worksforme
status:	new → closed

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