$().add(html) returns different result on IE compared to Firefox/Chrome

[zouhenry@…]

$().add("<div><option> hello </option></div>").html()

IE (9): returns " hello "

Chrome/Firefox: returns "<option> hello </option>"

[Christian Meixner <christian.meixner@…>]

This is not valid HTML

<div><option> hello </option></div>

OPTION is not allowed in DIV!

Try:

$().add("<div><select><option> hello </option><select></div>").html();

and everything works fine (though still crappy code, you don't have to use .add() here)

[dmethvin]

Agreed, invalid HTML has undefined results.