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#7723 closed bug (invalid)

Opened December 07, 2010 11:01PM UTC

Closed December 08, 2010 12:12AM UTC

Last modified March 14, 2012 08:36PM UTC

HTML escaping broken for newlines in IE7

Reported by: dlee Owned by:
Priority: undecided Milestone: 1.6
Component: unfiled Version: 1.4.4
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

$("<a>").text("hi\\nthere").html() properly returns in IE8 but not IE7. IE7 strips the newlines.

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Changed December 07, 2010 11:04PM UTC by dlee comment:1

Actually, it's a problem with IE8 as well. Webkit and Firefox work properly. IE also works if you use a <pre> element instead of an <a> element.

Changed December 08, 2010 12:12AM UTC by jitter comment:2

_comment0: Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report. \ \ The [http://api.jquery.com/html/ documentation] states: \ \ > This method uses the browser's `innerHTML` property. Some browsers may not return HTML that exactly replicates the HTML source in an original document. \ \ So this is a problem of IE's `innerHTML` implementation. You should isntead use `.text()` here anyway. → 1291767175103225
resolution: → invalid
status: new → closed

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report.

The documentation states:

This method uses the browser's innerHTML property. Some browsers may not return HTML that exactly replicates the HTML source in an original document.

So this is a problem of IE's innerHTML implementation. You should instead use .text() here anyway.