Unfortunately, there's not really a whole lot that we can do on our end to fix a problem like that - short of including a full HTML parser/DOM generator.
Now, I've written one: http://ejohn.org/blog/pure-javascript-html-parser/ but it's probably just better to make sure that your injected HTML is well-formed. --John On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Daniel Friesen<nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I ran into another IE issue with unclosed tag syntax inside node > creation (I personally like to leave the / out unless necessary most of > the time, especially since it flows fairly nice with .text(userVar)). > > http://jsbin.com/ejote > > <span></span> > <span /> > <span/> > <span> > <span class=foo /> > > All work in ie7, ie8, opera, firefox, and midori. > > However: > <span class=foo> > <span class="foo"> > > Fail in ie7 and ie8 while they work in firefox, midori, and opera. > > Filed as: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4806 > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] > > John Resig wrote: >> This is very helpful analysis. I've added it to my todo list. Could >> you file a ticket with your test cases, as well? Thanks! >> http://dev.jquery.com/newticket >> >> --John >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Daniel >> Friesen<nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ok, narrowed it down. >>> Someone tells me that Konqueror isn't working for that page either so it >>> looks like IE8 and Konqueror may share this behavior. >>> From the looks of it $button.append( "[" ); is working. >>> >>> $('#bodyContent').append( "[" ); // works >>> $('#bodyContent').append( "[", "]" ); // "Invalid argument" in IE8 console, >>> works in FF Firebug console >>> $('#bodyContent').append( "asdf", "asdf" ); // "Invalid argument" in IE8 >>> console, works in FF Firebug console >>> $('#bodyContent').append( document.createTextNode("["), "]" ); // works >>> $('#bodyContent').append( "<span>foo</span>", "]" ); // in IE8 console only >>> inserts the ']' the foo span is not inserted, works in FF Firebug console >>> $('#bodyContent').append( "<span>asdf</span>", "<span>qwerty</span>" ); // >>> in IE8 console only inserts the qwerty span the asdf span is not inserted, >>> works in FF Firebug console >>> >>> So this looks like an IE8 (maybe Konqueror) issue where when .domManip >>> is used (by something like .append) with more than one argument with the >>> first being a string a "Invalid argument" error is thrown if the first >>> argument is not a valid node string. If the first argument is a valid >>> node string, instead the first argument is ignored and the rest are >>> inserted. >>> >>> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] >>> >>> John Resig wrote: >>> >>>> You say that you still have problems if you split apart the query. >>>> >>>> So in this case $button.append( "[" ) fails - correct? >>>> >>>> What happens if you do: >>>> >>>> $button.append( document.createTextNode("[") ) >>>> >>>> --John >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Daniel >>>> Friesen<nadir.seen.f...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I've been having trouble with a bit of jQuery that works in FF, Opera, >>>>> and Midori, but breaks in IE. >>>>> >>>>> See http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Sandbox?allinone=0 >>>>> The code: http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/ShowHide/code.js >>>>> (it's on a wiki, so you can see the history of editing) >>>>> >>>>> Using IE8's debugger tools (yay, finally MS rips of Firebug to give us a >>>>> way to find out why IE is breaking /sarcasm) I've narrowed it down to >>>>> $button.append( '[', $buttonLink, ']' ); Where jQuery's .append calls >>>>> .clean which near the end calls fragment.appendChild( ret[i] ); fragment >>>>> is the document, and i is 0, ret is 3 items in length containing the >>>>> text node, span, and other text node. jQuery tries to appendChild to the >>>>> document and IE decides it doesn't like it. >>>>> >>>>> Does this seem like a jQuery bug? >>>>> >>>>> Note: ya, I have tried splitting the append call into three separate >>>>> ones, still causes the same issue on the first one. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
