Numeric character references, eg,   are inserted as plain text when text does not contain tags

[doug]

Inserting, for example, .html(" ") actually inserts " " due to calling context.createTextNode( elem ) in the 'clean' method. The inappropriate call is due to rhtml.test( elem ) returning false.

SOLUTION:

Check for num. char. ref., which have '#' in the rhtml reg exp.

rhtml = /<|&#?\w+;/,

[john]

Good catch, checking in to this.

[dmethvin]

Should it also accept char entities like " < > & or are the numeric ones all we need to handle?

[john]

Fixed ​http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/d74389997106b02cf513f573a0d7197ecc511514