Method .text() Works in Firefox, Fails in IE

[rwadams]

Test page: ​http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/o/template.htm

Lines 91-92 of script hymn2.js read:

var titleElement = $("title");

var titleText = titleElement.text();

This correctly returns the document title in Firefox 3.6.9. However, in Internet Explorer 8.0.7600, the variable titleText is set to an empty string.

[miketaylr]

This isn't really a bug, per se--the most reliable way of getting the text from the title across browsers is via document.title.

In your example, var titleText = document.title;

[rwadams]

Replying to miketaylr:

This isn't really a bug, per se--the most reliable way of getting the text from the title across browsers is via document.title.

In your example, var titleText = document.title;

Hmmm...I thought Jquery's goal was to give the same behavior across browsers, especially two major browsers like Firefox & IE? Oh well. I'm still unclear what causes the different results, but you're right: document.title does work. Guess we'll declare victory & let the Jquery folks scratch their heads about the different browser behaviors.

[dmethvin]

There already is a cross-browser way to set and get the title, document.title.

[Pointy]

I really disagree with the resolution of this bug.

[jitter]

Duplicate of #2755.