Klaus... The docs don't seem to indicate that it will insert something AND close a tag at the same time. It just says "Inserts some HTML before all paragraphs". That's what I want, but I want full control over it. There's plenty of times where a developer might be working with xHTML, which in small pieces is invalid or incomplete, but when viewed in total is perfectly fine.
Anyway, if you're saying that's expected behavior then I'll refactor code so that I get expected results on my end or I just won't use that method again. Thanks for responding. andy -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartl Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:52 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Bug in before, and after?? Andy Matthews wrote: > I'm getting some unexpected results using these three functions and I > wondered if this was a bug. This is what I'm trying to accomplish: > > <div id="leads" class="module"> > <div class="moduleHeader"> > <h2>Lead Submissions</h2> > <div class="cap"></div> > </div> > </div> > > I can code this manually, but I thought it would be nice to use jQuery > to remove some of the redundant code. So I first tried before and > after like so: > > // jquery > $('h2', '.module').before('<div class="moduleHeader">').after('<div > class="cap"></div></div>'); > > <!-- html code --> > <h2>Lead Submissions</h2> > > results: > <div class="moduleHeader"></div><h2>Lead Submissions</h2><div > class="cap"></div> > > (you can see that jQuery "finished" my "incomplete" tag) > > Why is it doing this? I know it's trying to keep "valid" code, but my > code IS valid...just not with that snippet. Anyone have any comments > on this? I think you must not think of these methods doing some string operations in the DOM (as if you were writing HTML). The given HTML will result in an element, but you cannot have an opening element (as opposed to an opening tag). --Klaus
