[jQuery] Re: Using replaceWith on a instead of a causes text to be deleted

2009-07-28 Thread Ricardo
I think you're confused because jQuery accepts self-closing syntax for element creation, this will probably work: xx.replaceWith( $('') ); On Jul 28, 12:30 pm, "thorasm...@gmail.com" wrote: > Not sure whether this is a bug, but is is certainly unexpected > behaviour. > > When i try to use repla

[jQuery] Re: Using replaceWith on a instead of a causes text to be deleted

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Garside
The W3C has a list of valid self-closing tags, div of which is not one of them (for the sake of compatibility, I think). http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_ref_byfunc.asp Only the following tags should be self closed: On Jul 28, 11:30 am, "thorasm...@gmail.com" wrote: > Not sure whe