#6475 closed bug (invalid)
jQuery adds new HTML tags when calling manipulation methods
| Reported by: | danielfranz | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | 1.4.3 |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.4.2 |
| Keywords: | Manipulation HTML xmlns | Cc: | |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Not sure if this should be considered a bug.
It happens i.e. in Moz Firefox 3.6.3 (WIN) with the following doctype def: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-W3CDTD XHTML 1.0 TransitionalEN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:meebo="http://www.meebo.com/">
Example:
I have this code: <a id="anchor"> <div> <p>Text</p> </div> </a>
I do this: <script> $('#anchor').attr('href','test.php'); </script>
Then I end up with this: <a href="test.php" id="anchor"> <div> <p> <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Text</a> </p> </div> </a>
Question: Is it necessary for jQuery to add the extra <a> tag between the <div> and the <p>? I know that nesting all that stuff in the outer <a/> is not really lean in the first place but browsers have no problems interpreting it right. So if the extra <a/> is not really mandatory for some future strict xmlns I would generally prefer to keep the code like it is. Limiting methods like attr() or html() to execute what they are asked to.
Thanks guys, you re doing a great job there.
Can you reopen this with a complete test case? Please run the document through the XHTML validator, and check in Firebug that the markup is as you expect before using jQuery to set the attribute.