Descendant id selector bug in IE when running in IE7 mode

[riaanl@…]

Descendant id selector does not work in IE when running in IE7 mode ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx).
In the example @  http://jsfiddle.net/riaanl/TGwGW/, the selector ('#uiContainerX #txtName') to find the first input #txtName in #uiContainerX works; But when trying to access the other input #txtName with selector '#uiContainerX #txtName' does not work and returns an unexpected object.

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Expected Result:
$('#uiContainerX #txtName').attr('id') >> txtName
$('#uiContainerY #txtName').attr('id') >> txtName
$('#uiContainerY [id=txtName]').attr('id') >> txtName
$('#txtName', '#uiContainerY').attr('id') >> txtName

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The result in ie with IE7 mode ON:
$('#uiContainerX #txtName').attr('id') >> txtName
$('#uiContainerY #txtName').attr('id') >> undefined
$('#uiContainerY [id=txtName]').attr('id') >> txtName
$('#txtName', '#uiContainerY').attr('id') >> txtName

[riaanl@…]

to replicate the issue, one must add

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7.5" />

to the head section of the page.

[jitter]

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report. Your test case contains invalid html as there are two elements with the same id "txtName" which isn't allowed ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-id-attribute)

Please report back if you can provide a test case with valid html which still reproduces the error described.

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