I'm fairly certain that our .text() support has changed a lot since October 2006 (!). It would be interesting to re-examine this issue - if there are any current problems I know that we'd really like to get them fixed.
--John On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Dave Methvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm having some issues when calling $("something").text() in IE 6/7. >> Basically I'm getting the calling text() on a <pre> element which is >> whitespace sensitive. In Firefox and Safari it works perfectly >> returning the text with whitespace intact. Is it possible to make it >> work in IE or shall I give up? > > I noticed that too quite a while back, if you run the test in this > message does it still do the same thing? > > http://www.nabble.com/.text()-method-quirks-p6933512s27240.html >