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user1802046
user1802046

Reputation: 19

id.text() of jquery ignoring more than 1 white space in ie8

I have a span with id SOMEID.When I am accessing its text value using folloing code it is breaking in IE8 and IE7 only.How to fix it.

$("#DocumentPath").text(). If DocumentPath contain name like My doc.txt it is not working. Note here there is 3 white space between My and doc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 477

Answers (3)

Danhdds
Danhdds

Reputation: 150

Maybe you should try another approach, on jQuery's docs they recommend call .eval() function to retrieve a value instead of .text() check their doc:http://api.jquery.com/text/

So the code snippet could be: 

$("#DocumentPath").eval()

Regards

:)

Upvotes: 0

Christoph
Christoph

Reputation: 51201

You very vague problem description "code it is breaking" can make us only guess, but note the following: IE treats whitespaces in the markup differently than other browsers.

From the docs:

(Due to variations in the HTML parsers in different browsers, the text returned may vary in newlines and other white space.)

The result of the .text() method is a string containing the combined text of all matched elements.

As of jQuery 1.4, the .text() method returns the value of text and CDATA nodes as well as element nodes.

Thus said, it may be more appropriate for you, to use the html() method.

Upvotes: 2

Liam
Liam

Reputation: 29714

Should be

$("#DocumentPath").html()

That said you say your span has an id SOMEID?! If it's id is SOMEID it should be:

$("#SOMEID").html()

Upvotes: 0

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