a.comparedocumentposition is not a function

Reported by:	mohd.nawawi@gmail.com	Owned by:	mohd.nawawi@gmail.com
Priority:	low	Milestone:	None
Component:	misc	Version:	1.6.4
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.4

Browser: Firefox 3.6.22

jQuery: 1.6.4

I just put some condition to check if function or not, error not throw anymore.

Original:

} else if ( document.documentElement.compareDocumentPosition ) {

Sizzle.contains = function( a, b ) {

return !!(a.compareDocumentPosition(b) & 16);

};

Fixed:

} else if ( document.documentElement.compareDocumentPosition ) {

Sizzle.contains = function( a, b ) {

if ( a.compareDocumentPosition instanceof Function ) {

return !!(a.compareDocumentPosition(b) & 16);

}

return false;

};

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Change History (4)

Changed October 01, 2011 04:19PM UTC by addyosmani comment:1

component:	unfiled → misc
owner:	→ mohd.nawawi@gmail.com
priority:	undecided → low
status:	new → pending

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Changed October 16, 2011 07:52AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:2

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	pending → closed

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Changed November 29, 2011 12:16PM UTC by robertedgar@netvigator.com comment:3

I am getting an error due to the issue covered here:

'compareDocumentPosition' is not a function of 'a'.

Strangely this is only happens on FireFox, not on Chrome.

Issue seems to be because params 'a' and 'b' are Arrays containing the respective nodes rather than the nodes themselves.

Changed November 29, 2011 12:31PM UTC by anonymous comment:4

The root of the issue is passing jQuery objects to 'contains' instead of basic elements.

under Chrome/WebKit it works as it tries to call the native 'contains' function on the object (a jQuery object) and this succeeds because jQuery has a function 'contains'...

under FireFox it fails because it tries to call compareDocumentPosition which doesn't exist on the params object.

I assume Chrome succeeding is just an unintended side effect.

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