On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Bertilo Wennergren wrote:
Karl Swedberg wrote:
Internally, jQuery determines whether to use document.createElement
by checking the string against a regular expression:
rsingleTag = /^<(\w+)\s*\/?>$/
Unless I'm missing something, allowing for both syntaxes would be
trivial. Just change the regex to something like this (untested):
rsingleTag = /^<(\w+)\s*\/?>(<\/\w+>)?$/
I think I'll recommend that.
That seems to work.
But event then, in the following case '<span/>' is still being
converted to '<span></span>' (and then passed to innerHTML):
var html = '<span/>';
$("#div").html(html);
--
Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com>
Right. I'm pretty sure that's because the html string is handled
differently if it's an argument of a DOM manipulation method
(e.g. .html('<span/') ) as opposed to an argument of the jQuery
function (e.g. $('<span/') ).
If I recall correctly, all of the DOM manipulation methods are run
through the same set of functions before performing their specific
task. While changing '<span></span>' might not be necessary
for .html(), it is for .wrap(), for example.
--Karl
