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[jquery-dev] Re: Traversing the element and accessing the content.</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=jquery-dev@googlegroups.com&q=from:%22Van%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Van</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=jquery-dev@googlegroups.com&q=date:20091030" rel="nofollow">Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:12:45 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody">  <pre>Thanks, Karl. I didnt know that the title element was treated as a special case and was selecting it using jQuery's $('title') selector syntax. That failed miserably in IE7. Changing my code to use document.title as you suggested solved the problem.</pre><pre> On Sep 11, 9:08 am, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > The <title> tag acts a little differently from other DOM nodes. You > can just edit the DOM property document.title directly. > > $(document).ready(function() { > var titleText = document.title; > $('#test').val(titleText); > > }); > > --Karl > > ____________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Ezence wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > There seems to be a problem with using $('title').text() in IE7 and > > IE8 - wondering if this is a known problem and if there are any work > > arounds. > > > sample code: > > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Example</title> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > $(document).ready(function(){ > > > $('#test').val($('title').text()); > > > }); > > </script> > > > </head> > > <body> > > <input type="text" id="test" /> > > </body> > > </html> > > > It works fine within Chrome and Firefox. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. 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