It's not a bug in :empty. I just changed the documentation to this:
Matches all elements that have no children (including text nodes).
Then, for the "demo" tab, I changed it to this:
Finds all elements that are empty - they don't have child elements or
text.
Does that help clarify it? If not, feel free to edit it directly in
the wiki or reply to this with a suggestion for revision.
Thanks,
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
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On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Christoph Roeder wrote:
Hello,
I think the :empty pseudo-class has a bug, the docs are wrong or I
misunderstood the docs.
The Problem is, that :empty only matches elements when they really
have no children, incl. textnodes with whitespaces or newlines.
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/empty
Matches all elements that are empty, be it elements or text.
Example:
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$("#test").is(":empty")
-> returns: [ #test ], instead of an empty array
<div id="test">
</div>
