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]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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