HTML escaping broken for newlines in IE7

[dlee]

$("<a>").text("hi\nthere").html() properly returns in IE8 but not IE7. IE7 strips the newlines.

[dlee]

Actually, it's a problem with IE8 as well. Webkit and Firefox work properly. IE also works if you use a <pre> element instead of an <a> element.

[jitter]

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report.

The ​documentation states:

This method uses the browser's innerHTML property. Some browsers may not return HTML that exactly replicates the HTML source in an original document.

So this is a problem of IE's innerHTML implementation. You should instead use .text() here anyway.