Cannot use .append() or .appendTo() with document fragments

Reported by:	magentix@gmail.com	Owned by:
Priority:	low	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	manipulation	Version:	1.6.1
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

As the title states: trying to append() a document fragment OR trying to appendTo() onto a document fragment fails.

The fragment will not have any children in the example below:


var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(),
    elem = document.createElement('div');
	
/* Comment out 2 out of 3 to test each case separately */
	
//frag.appendChild(elem);
$(frag).append(elem);
//$(elem).appendTo(frag);
	
console.log(frag);

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Change History (4)

Changed June 08, 2011 05:14PM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

component:	unfiled → manipulation
priority:	undecided → low
status:	new → open

fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/barfD/

barfD, lol.

Changed June 08, 2011 05:22PM UTC by timmywil comment:2

Is that something we want to fix? Fragments are nodeType 11 and all manipulation is revolved around nodeType being 1.

Changed June 08, 2011 05:36PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

@dmethvin & @timmywil - I vote "invalid use case".

Changed July 12, 2011 05:44PM UTC by addyosmani comment:4

resolution:	→ wontfix
status:	open → closed

Adding a +1 to rwaldron's vote to mark this as an invalid use case. As timmywil appears to side with this not being behaviour that should be fixed, I'll be closing as wontfix.

If another member of the team wishes to change this resolution, please feel free to.

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