I'd like to propose that the jQuery() function accept a simple new
syntax to allow it to create simple text nodes. If the string argument
begins with an apostrophe, then treat the rest of the argument as plain
text and return a jQuery object that wraps a single text node.
I ask for this because I was trying to do this:
$("§").prependTo("h1");
Then I realized that since my string doesn't contain any angle brackets
it is being treated as a selector rather than as a string of HTML, and I
have to write this:
$(document.createTextNode("§")).prependTo("h1");
I don't know how valuable this feature would be, but I've attached a
simple (and barely tested) patch to implement it.
With the patch, the code above gets a single apostrophe added to it and
becomes:
$("'§").prependTo("h1");
David
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Index: core.js
===================================================================
--- core.js (revision 6415)
+++ core.js (working copy)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
// A simple way to check for HTML strings or ID strings
// (both of which we optimize for)
- quickExpr = /^[^<]*(<(.|\s)+>)[^>]*$|^#([\w-]+)$/,
+ quickExpr = /^[^<]*(<(.|\s)+>)[^>]*$|^#([\w-]+)$|^'(.*)$/,
// Is it a simple selector
isSimple = /^.[^:#\[\.,]*$/,
@@ -51,24 +51,28 @@
// Handle HTML strings
if ( typeof selector === "string" ) {
- // Are we dealing with HTML string or an ID?
+ // Are we dealing with HTML string or an ID or a text
node?
match = quickExpr.exec( selector );
// Verify a match, and that no context was specified
for #id
- if ( match && (match[1] || !context) ) {
+ if ( match && (match[1] || match[4] || !context) ) {
// HANDLE: $(html) -> $(array)
if ( match[1] ) {
selector = jQuery.clean( [ match[1] ],
context );
- // HANDLE: $("#id")
+ // HANDLE: $("#id") and $("'text")
} else {
- elem = document.getElementById(
match[3] );
+ if ( match[3] ) {
+ elem = document.getElementById(
match[3] );
- // Handle the case where IE and Opera
return items
- // by name instead of ID
- if ( elem && elem.id !== match[3] ) {
- return rootjQuery.find(
selector );
+ // Handle the case where IE and
Opera return items
+ // by name instead of ID
+ if ( elem && elem.id !==
match[3] ) {
+ return rootjQuery.find(
selector );
+ }
+ } else {
+ elem = document.createTextNode(
match[4] );
}
// Otherwise, we inject the element
directly into the jQuery object
