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Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#13418 closed bug (duplicate)

jQuery selector $() throws 'unrecognized expression', when creating a DOM element with spaces in front

Reported by: [email protected]… Owned by:
Priority: undecided Milestone: None
Component: unfiled Version: 1.9.0
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

Example:
jQuery 1.9.x 

> $('<span />');
  [<span></span>]
> $(' <span />');
  Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: <span />

jQuery 1.8.x 

> $('<span />');
  [<span></span>]
> $(' <span />');
  [<span></span>]

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by dmethvin

Resolution: → duplicate
Status: new → closed

Duplicate of #13223.
​http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#jquery-htmlstring-versus-jquery-selectorstring

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