Most jQuery functions fail silently, that's by design. You must write your own function if you want to validate the class name being passed.
cheers, ricardo On Sep 18, 11:03 am, "~flow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i’m doing this in ffx2 and firebug1.05; i have a local document > loaded, go to the firebug console, and write > > $log( $Q( 'div' ).hasClass( '' ) ); $log( '###' ) > > to which firebug responds with > true > ### > > thereby showing bot commands did execute. now i repeat the experiment, > but with > > $log( $Q( 'div' ).hasClass( '.x' ) ); $log( '###' ) > > the argument to `hasClass` is problematic: it uses selector-syntax and > starts with a dot. this is a mistake that easily results from copy-n- > pasting code. acceptable reactions of jQuery to this would be > responding with something like `null`, `undefined`, or `false`, or > raising an exception for having been passed a bogus argument. > > instead what happens: NOTHING. NADA. firebug displays RIEN de tout. > this bit me when i wrote a suite of several method calls, one of which > included dotted class name---the code would run to a certain point, > then simply VANISH like being swallowed by a black hole. firebug > breakpoints etc. haven’t helped me so far. > > i’m not even sure how to simulate this behavior using only > javascript---can’t be an early return statement, as then the `###`es > in the above example would still print out. javascript execution just > stops silently in some dark dead end. any ideas, anyone? > > cheers & ~flow
