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#11194 closed bug (invalid)
Opened January 19, 2012 01:54PM UTC
Closed January 19, 2012 01:57PM UTC
Passing a HTML tag with attributes to jQuery without a closing tag (either /> or </tag>) has different behaviour in IE 8
| Reported by: | oheard | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.7.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
When creating a new HTML element with attributes by passing the source to the jQuery constructor, if no closing tag is present most browsers create the element anyway.
IE 8 (and maybe below, I don't have < 8) return an empty jQuery object.
Example without attributes, showing the expected behavour:
Example with an attribute, showing the buggy behaviour:
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Changed January 19, 2012 01:57PM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → invalid |
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| status: | new → closed |
Yes, as clearly documented. If it needs a closing tag you should provide one. Just like script tags need a closing tag and can't be shortcutted.
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery2