jQuery is not handling numbers return with Exponent by Firefox 5

[antitoxic@…]

I stumbled on this bug when dealing with high z-index values and ui.dialog widget. By large I mean something like 10000000

When called getComputedStyle in the jQuery curCSS can return something like 1e+7. Which when parsed as integer will become 1.

Can jQuery support parsing numbers in such format or this is firefox bug?

[Anton Stoychev <antitoxic@…>]

Math object methods such as round and abs can convert a string "1e+7" to integer but parseInt will see the 1 in the beginning just return this.

So why not incorporate this into getComputedStyle?

[Anton Stoychev <antitoxic@…>]

One more thing: parseInt is used in $.fn.zIndex()

[Rick Waldron]

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[Anton Stoychev <antitoxic@…>]

Here's the test case: ​http://jsfiddle.net/rembF/19/

There's a Firefox >=5 bug involved as well.

Can someone please move this bug to jQuery UI core because I just saw that $.fn.zIndex is part of ui.core?

[Rick Waldron]

You'll have to re-file with UI, there is no mechanism to just "move" a ticket.

[JiDW]

I think this is an issue of jquery, not jqueryUI

getComputedStyle indeed return an exponential value. Even if $.fn.zIndex exists in jqueryUI, jqueryUI uses jquery.css to get zIndex. And it is jquery.css that uses getComputedStyle, so you can't correct this bug in jqueryUI core function.

Can you reopen this ticket please ?

At this time we have to use native .style.zIndex on the element to get the correct z Index.

[thorn]

+1 it is NOT a jQuery UI issue

[mikesherov]

This is not a bug anyway.