null value in WebKit

[stefano@…]

In Chrome passing a null value to a $("div").text(null) method results in a "null" string printed inside the div.

​http://jsbin.com/umihut/1/

[dmethvin]

That's outside the valid inputs for the method, the docs clearly say it takes a string, and null is not a string. ​http://api.jquery.com/text/#text2

What result did you expect?

[anonymous]

Is just a different behaviour. On the previous versions checking if the var is null was not necessary, now it prints out null.

[mikesherov]

Thanks for contributing! However, unexpected inputs produce unexpected outputs! Unfortunately, we can't guarantee (and you shouldn't expect) that every invalid input to every function will behave the same way between versions. We only attempt to guarantee valid and consistent output for valid inputs.

For that reason, I'm going to close this bug as won't fix.