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#11589 closed bug (cantfix)
Opened April 13, 2012 02:22PM UTC
Closed April 13, 2012 03:04PM UTC
Last modified April 13, 2012 09:22PM UTC
Putting Html In A Div Closed Within Its Opening Tag, Causes Content Below That Div To Disappear
| Reported by: | Jay32 | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.7.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Click on the text 'Click me'.
Apparently, it makes a difference whether the first div is closed like this:
<div id="first" />
Or like this:
<div id="first" ></div>
Using the first div, closed within its opening tag, causes Jquery to delete everything below that div when appending html to it.
Using the second div, closed with an explicit closing tag, it works as expected. The first div has some html set, and all other elements are left undisturbed.
Occurs regardless of jQuery or bare DOM:
http://jsfiddle.net/E3jVv/6/
Imma point out that technically a self-closed div element is not valid markup because only elements that *cannot* have content can be self-closed. Your div can have content (in fact you're trying to add it) but it just doesn't happen to have content when the document is parsed.
It seems pretty strange to me, I agree, but technically you cannot self-close a div tag. We allow
$("<div/>")but that actually creates a div element inside jQuery. Your case has the element in the markup so jQuery isn't involved in the creation of the tree at all.