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Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#12157 closed bug (invalid)

.is(':empty') should be true on characterless and whitespaced

Reported by: [email protected]… Owned by:
Priority: undecided Milestone: None
Component: unfiled Version: 1.7.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

Wouldn't it be good if 

.is(':empty')

works on whitespaced elements, this jsFiddle test explains it all.

​http://jsfiddle.net/pbSpJ/

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by timmywil

Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed

It may be useful for some, but the place to argue for it is on the w3c, since that is the behavior specified.

​http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#empty-pseudo

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