jQuery function can't create this specific dom in IE8.

[hesam.faraji@…]

to find out the bug, just run code bellow.

var myTable = $("<table><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table>")
    .appendTo(container) // container is a div element
    .width(110)
    .height(200)
    .find("td:first")
    .height(75)
    .end()
    .find("td:nth(1)")
    .height(125);

    alert($("td:first", myTable).size()); // incurrectly alerts 0 instead of 1.

[jitter]

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report. But this code won't work in any browser. At the end of your manipulations myTable doesn't contain the table but a td element. You are probably missing a .end() at the end of your chain.

Please always try extra hard to check you didn't make a mistake before reporting something as a bug as the jQuery bug tracker is not for support requests.

If you are not really sure you found a bug please first try the  #jquery irc channel on freenode or use the  jQuery Forum for help to make sure it isn't just a simple error in the code.

[ajpiano]

There is no ":nth" pseudoselector .. it's :nth-child or :eq