Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#10606 closed bug (wontfix)
#ID-selector inconsistent
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | selector | Version: | 1.6.4 |
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| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
In the theoretical case you have multiple elements on a page with the same ID, the following selectors give different results:
$('#id') $('div#id')
The first selector only returns the first occurence of the id, while the second will return a set of all elements with that id.
They should behave the same.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by
| Component: | unfiled → selector |
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| Owner: | set to [email protected]… |
| Priority: | undecided → low |
| Status: | new → pending |
Why would ever have >1 element with the same ID?
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
| Status: | pending → new |
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That's not the point.
Of course it shouldn't happen, but with dynamically generated content it CAN happen. Fact is jQuery does not handle ID-selectors consistently.
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
| Status: | new → pending |
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Actually, it is: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/elements.html#the-id-attribute
If you write unexpected code, unexpected things happen.
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | pending → closed |
Just so you get a clearer picture, the "inconsistency" isn't jQuery's fault either: http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/JZ8GX/
jsFiddle-example:
http://jsfiddle.net/y59Q7/