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#13383 closed bug (invalid)

Opened February 04, 2013 01:36PM UTC

Closed February 26, 2013 08:59AM UTC

$(...).attr("defer") returns "defer" instead of actual attribute.

Reported by: site-bugs.jquery.com@tnx.nl Owned by: site-bugs.jquery.com@tnx.nl
Priority: undecided Milestone: None
Component: unfiled Version: 1.9.0
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Given <a href="" defer="foo">, $("a").attr("defer") returns "defer" instead of the expected "foo". When no attribute named "defer" is present, it returns undefined, as expected.

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Changed February 12, 2013 03:28AM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

owner: → site-bugs.jquery.com@tnx.nl
status: newpending

Since defer is a boolean attribute there would be a lot of hell to pay if it returned something falsy to users that think it should be truthy if specified at all. Is the current behavior breaking something?

Changed February 26, 2013 08:59AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:2

resolution: → invalid
status: pendingclosed

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