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#7025 closed bug (duplicate)
Opened September 10, 2010 11:24PM UTC
Closed February 18, 2011 01:40PM UTC
Last modified March 13, 2012 10:48PM UTC
Method .text() Works in Firefox, Fails in IE
| Reported by: | rwadams | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | core | Version: | 1.4.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
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.
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Change History (7)
Changed September 11, 2010 01:27AM UTC by comment:1
Changed September 11, 2010 03:18PM UTC by comment:2
Replying to [comment:1 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.
Changed September 12, 2010 01:13AM UTC by comment:3
| resolution: | → worksforme |
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| status: | new → closed |
There already is a cross-browser way to set and get the title,
document.title.
Changed September 23, 2010 11:10PM UTC by comment:4
I really disagree with the resolution of this bug.
Changed February 18, 2011 01:39PM UTC by comment:5
| component: | unfiled → core |
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| milestone: | 1.4.3 |
| priority: | → low |
| resolution: | worksforme |
| status: | closed → reopened |
Changed February 18, 2011 01:40PM UTC by comment:6
| resolution: | → duplicate |
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| status: | reopened → closed |
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;