jQuery('select').is('[value="value"]') works inconsistently depending on number of elements returned

[dschoutens@…]

I have distilled the issue as much as possible in a jsFiddle: ​http://jsfiddle.net/Mj23Q/

Say we've got a jQuery object saved to a variable, x.

If x contains multiple select elements and at least one of them has a value, "1", then:

x.is('[value=1]')

will return true, since at least one select element matches the value attribute selector given. However, if x only contains a single element, and that element is a select with a value of "1", the same function returns false.

I tested and was able to reproduce this in Chrome 21, Chrome 24 (Canary), Firefox 15, and Internet Explorer 9 for all versions of jQuery provided in jsFiddle.

Sorry if this is a duplicate bug, but I really tried to find an existing bug report. My search-fu might be a little off today.

[Rick Waldron]

Not 100%, but this change might be the issue: ​https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/commit/6e524a5915a8a5dda1969898749c81d0fae64e6e

(this is mostly a note to myself as I dig through this)

[anonymous]

This might help: it seems the bug is not specific to the .is() function, but also affects .filter() (at least...)

I updated the jsFiddle to demonstrate: ​http://jsfiddle.net/Mj23Q/13/

[dschoutens@…]

Replying to anonymous:

This might help: it seems the bug is not specific to the .is() function, but also affects .filter() (at least...)

I updated the jsFiddle to demonstrate: ​http://jsfiddle.net/Mj23Q/13/

That was me... forgot to specify my email in my comment.

[gibson042]

The expectations in the comments of that fiddle are erroneous... select[value=…] shouldn't match anything, because most select elements—and those in particular—don't have attributes named "value".

This ticket is the attrHooks equivalent of #11115: native Sizzle always gets it right, jQuery only does so when jQuery.filter calls a qSA-backed matchesSelector in the single-element case: ​http://jsfiddle.net/Mj23Q/43/

[gibson042]

The hook should be moved to ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-compat/.

[Rick Waldron]

Reassigning to gibson042, seems like you have a better handle on this

[gibson042]

​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/1063

[gibson042]

#11735 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[Richard Gibson]

Fix #12600: don't use value property in place of value attribute. Close gh-1063.

Changeset: 2c40fdd4a852fe6ee16feaa3bb6d7d49c7a02606