ie7/8 seem to have problems with a[href="#"]

[jacob@…]

Here's a test case ​http://jsbin.com/efalod/3

Seems to only be a problem with adding the element dynamically.

thanks!

[anonymous]

​http://jsbin.com/efalod/7/edit#javascript,html

also doesn't appear to work for a regular selector

[Rick Waldron]

Confirmed. IE7/8

​http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/7zQDR/

[dmethvin]

It's a problem with .is(), which is used by the event delegation:

alert($("a").is('a[href="#"]'));  // false

And it's because of the old problem with IE6/7 creating a full URL for an href:

alert($("a").attr('href'));  // "http://fiddle.jshell.net/_display/#"

When we use .innerHTML to create an element (as is being done here when you specify a string) it will munge the href before we can do anything about it. If this is in the actual HTML markup we are able to use the .getAttribute("href", 2) hack to get the real unmunged href but that's not an option here.

Workaround 1: Use $=: ​http://jsfiddle.net/7zQDR/2/

Workaround 2: Use explicit .attr(): ​http://jsfiddle.net/7zQDR/4/

[timmywil]

that's exactly right. Also see #10745

[anonymous]

Thank's for the "$=" workaround - great idea