inconsistent .html() and .text()

[mrtwice99]

Discussion of this bug: ​http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/9a7e4a989106f57b/b5bbedf927fab901?lnk=gst&q=rsyring&rnum=2#b5bbedf927fab901

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Summary Follows

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The docs say that .text() is similar to .html() except that all the html formatting gets stripped out. However, .text() does not operate the same way as .html() when given a number object instead of a string.

Live Example:

​http://rcs-comp.com/code_examples/text_function_bug/

I have some code that has a three column table in it. When the user updates some number values in one of the two columns, I have some JS that sums those columns and updates the value in the third column with that info. When updating the third column, which his a TD element, I tried to use text() to do it:

var total = col1Total + col2Total; $('#wi_medical_total').text(total);

However, that did not work because the text in the cell never seemed to get updated. So, I I changed the code to use .html() instead of .text() :

var total = col1Total + col2Total; $('#wi_medical_total').html(total);

and it worked just fine. So, I did some more playing and came up with this:

var total = 5 + 5 + 'p'; $('#wi_medical_total').text(total);

Which finally worked and changed the text correctly to "10p". FYI, "p" was just a random character.

[mrtwice99]

Sorry, this shouldn't be in the Ajax component. It should be a 'core' issue I believe.

[john]

Fixed in SVN rev [2421].