$(" ... html ...") strips leading and trailing text nodes in HTML string

Reported by:	phil127+jq@gmail.com	Owned by:
Priority:	undecided	Milestone:	None
Component:	unfiled	Version:	1.6.2
Keywords:	neededdocs	Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

Hi,

I stumbled about this when trying to use $() with an HTML string that contains multiple top-level nodes and starts with a text node:

$("1 2 3")
Expected result: ["1", , "2", , "3"]
Observed result: [ , "2", ]

Additional observations:

The nodes are created as expected if the HTML string starts with "<" and ends with ">", even if the characters are converted to text nodes.

$("1 2 3 >") returns (incorrectly):
[ , "2", , "3 >"]

$("< 1 2 3") returns (incorrectly):
["< 1", , "2", ]

$("< 1 2 3 >") returns (correctly):
["< 1", , "2", , "3 >"]

$("1 2 3") returns (incorrectly):
[ , "2", , "3", (comment)]

$("1 2 3") returns (incorrectly):
[(comment), "1", , "2", ]

$("1 2 3") returns (correctly):
[(comment), "1", , "2", , "3", (comment)]

(The last is what I'm using as a workaround right now.)

Tested on:

Firefox 6.0
Google Chrome 13.0.782.112 m

OS:

Windows 7 x64 SP1

Regards,

Philipp Serafin

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Change History (2)

Changed August 18, 2011 03:20PM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

keywords:	→ needsdocs
resolution:	→ invalid
status:	new → closed

jQuery isn't intended to process text nodes as if they were DOM elements. Most methods save a few like .content() remove or ignore them if they are in a jQuery collection.

I've marked the ticket for a documentation review, but the behavior is correct.

Changed September 20, 2011 09:25AM UTC by addyosmani comment:2

keywords:	needsdocs → neededdocs

I've updated the docs for this here: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/

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