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#7025 closed bug (duplicate)

Opened September 10, 2010 11:24PM UTC

Closed February 18, 2011 01:40PM UTC

Last modified March 13, 2012 10:48PM UTC

Method .text() Works in Firefox, Fails in IE

Reported by: rwadams Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: core Version: 1.4.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Test page: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/o/template.htm

Lines 91-92 of script hymn2.js read:

var titleElement = $("title");

var titleText = titleElement.text();

This correctly returns the document title in Firefox 3.6.9. However, in Internet Explorer 8.0.7600, the variable titleText is set to an empty string.

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Changed September 11, 2010 01:27AM UTC by miketaylr comment:1

This isn't really a bug, per se--the most reliable way of getting the text from the title across browsers is via document.title.

In your example,

var titleText = document.title;

Changed September 11, 2010 03:18PM UTC by rwadams comment:2

Replying to [comment:1 miketaylr]:

This isn't really a bug, per se--the most reliable way of getting the text from the title across browsers is via document.title. In your example, var titleText = document.title;

Hmmm...I thought Jquery's goal was to give the same behavior across browsers, especially two major browsers like Firefox & IE? Oh well. I'm still unclear what causes the different results, but you're right: document.title does work. Guess we'll declare victory & let the Jquery folks scratch their heads about the different browser behaviors.

Changed September 12, 2010 01:13AM UTC by dmethvin comment:3

resolution: → worksforme
status: newclosed

There already is a cross-browser way to set and get the title,

document.title
.

Changed September 23, 2010 11:10PM UTC by Pointy comment:4

I really disagree with the resolution of this bug.

Changed February 18, 2011 01:39PM UTC by jitter comment:5

component: unfiledcore
milestone: 1.4.3
priority: → low
resolution: worksforme
status: closedreopened

Changed February 18, 2011 01:40PM UTC by jitter comment:6

resolution: → duplicate
status: reopenedclosed

Changed February 18, 2011 01:40PM UTC by jitter comment:7

Duplicate of #2755.