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#6467 closed bug (invalid)
Opened April 20, 2010 06:11PM UTC
Closed April 21, 2010 01:42AM UTC
ReplaceAll does not recognize self-closing tags
| Reported by: | stohn | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Milestone: | 1.4.3 | |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.4.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
When replaceAll targets an element that closes itself, e.g. <div />, it overlooks the desired element and selects all Html through the next appropriate closing tag.
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Changed April 21, 2010 01:42AM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
That's not valid markup in XHTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3
It's not valid markup in HTML either, since HTML inherently knows whether a tag is self-closing or not and a div is not self-closing.
For brevity, jQuery allows you to specify an empty div in a string as "<div />" but that is because it parses this special case itself. In the case of a div in the document itself, jQuery is at the mercy of the browser's own parser.
In both Firefox/Firebug and IE8/DeveloperTools(F12), if you use the HTML inspector you can see that the browser's parser has ignored the invalid self-closing tag.