Ticket #3255: clean[5831].v2.diff

src/core.js

@@ -936 +936 @@
         },
 
         clean: function( elems, context ) {
-                var ret = [];
                 context = context || document;
                 // !context.createElement fails in IE with an error but returns typeof 'object'
                 if (typeof context.createElement == 'undefined')
                         context = context.ownerDocument || context[0] && context[0].ownerDocument || document;
 
+                var ret = [], div = context.createElement("div");
+
                 jQuery.each(elems, function(i, elem){
                         if ( typeof elem == 'number' )
                                 elem += '';
@@ -959 +960 @@
                                 });
 
                                 // Trim whitespace, otherwise indexOf won't work as expected
-                                var tags = jQuery.trim( elem ).toLowerCase(), div = context.createElement("div");
+                                var tags = jQuery.trim( elem ).toLowerCase();
 
                                 var wrap =
                                         // option or optgroup
@@ -1031 +1032 @@
 
                 });
 
+                // Remove the elements from the temporary div (#3255) 
+                div.innerHTML = '';
                 return ret;
         },