CSS background-image attribute for detached elements does not update in Chrome

[lordjmann@…]

It took me literally forever to track this bug down, as it was not reproduced in non-chrome. If you detach an element (say a span/div) that has a background-image property already set, and attempt to change it while it is detached, it will NOT update. However other CSS properties such as width/height update as expected.

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Create any element, assign it a background-image

2.) Attach/insert element into your page somewhere

3.) Detach element

4.) Attempt to change background-image

[anonymous]

This should be for 1.6.1, however I think the problem still persists.

[dmethvin]

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[lordjmann@…]

Well, it appears that this is specific to chrome:

jQuery test: ​http://jsfiddle.net/FrKyN/31/ Regular JS+DOM test: ​http://jsfiddle.net/9XBEA/

Both exhibit the same problem

[dmethvin]

Sounds like you'll need to report it to the Chrome team.