jQuery.fn.is() returning true when it should be returning false

[elijahr]

There seems to be some issue with jQuery.fn.is() and text nodes. For instance, the last statement below should return false, but it is returning true.

/* put some HTML in the DOM */ $('<ol id="crumbs_menu"><li class="crumbs_link"><div></div></li></ol>').appendTo(document.body);

/* this should return false, but it returns true */ $().appendTo(document.body).is("#crumbs_menu li.crumbs_link:first > div");

[elijahr]

It seems that some quotes were stripped from my example. The last statement should be:

/* this should return false, but it returns true */ $("\ ").appendTo(document.body).is("#crumbs_menu li.crumbs_link:first > div");

[elijahr]

Apologies, this appears to be a duplicate of #4655, which was marked invalid. I used the :first-child selector and it solved my problem. You may close this as invalid as well. Thank you.