.attr('href', ...) may change the text part.

Reported by:	anonymous	Owned by:
Priority:	low	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	attributes	Version:	1.4.4
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

On IE8, I have element <a href="http://testurl">test@test</a>

and use .attr('href', 'http://testurl2') to change the href. But the text part (test@test) is changed to http://testurl2 too.

The repro is at: http://jsfiddle.net/7x3RV/2/

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Change History (5)

Changed January 17, 2011 10:52PM UTC by rwaldron comment:1

component:	unfiled → attributes
priority:	undecided → low

Changed January 17, 2011 10:56PM UTC by rwaldron comment:2

status:	new → open

http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/7x3RV/6/

Changed January 18, 2011 01:48AM UTC by jitter comment:3

This is a bug in IE not jQuery as this test case demonstrates.

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I'm not sure if this is fixable.

Changed January 18, 2011 09:49AM UTC by danheberden comment:4

Well a fix would add, imo, too much overhead. As jitter's second link mentions (though i put in a check for the @ before bothering with replacing crap)

var $a = $(this), // assuming your link element in a click handler or whatever
       old = $a.html();
$a.attr('href', '//whaver'); // set the href
if ( old.match( /@/ ) ) { // or indexOf , whatever
    $a.html( old );
}

Changed January 20, 2011 03:05PM UTC by jitter comment:5

resolution:	→ wontfix
status:	open → closed

Given that there is a workaround for this but the workaround is impractical to get into jQuery core I close this one.

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