multiple-descendant selector bug in 1.3
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Devs,<div>
</div><div>Just wanted to call your attention to a rather lengthy thread on the jquery-en list:</div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/1c6403c5f628d45a">http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/1c6403c5f628d45a</a></div><div>
</div><div>The upshot of it is, I think, a bug when multiple descendants appear in a selector. </div><div>
</div><div>For example, $('#menu li a:first') should match only one element, but it matches 7 in the test case. </div><div>
</div><div>The (mislabeled) ticket is here:</div><div><a href="http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3903">http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3903</a></div><div>
</div><div>And my test case is here:</div><div><a href="http://test.learningjquery.com/selector-bug.html">http://test.learningjquery.com/selector-bug.html</a></div><div>
</div><div> <div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>--Karl</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">____________</div><div>Karl Swedberg</div><div><a href="http://www.englishrules.com">www.englishrules.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.learningjquery.com">www.learningjquery.com</a></div><div>
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</div><div>Just wanted to call your attention to a rather lengthy thread on the jquery-en list:</div><div><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/1c6403c5f628d45a">http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/1c6403c5f628d45a</a></div><div>
</div><div>The upshot of it is, I think, a bug when multiple descendants appear in a selector. </div><div>
</div><div>For example, $('#menu li a:first') should match only one element, but it matches 7 in the test case. </div><div>
</div><div>The (mislabeled) ticket is here:</div><div><a href="http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3903">http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3903</a></div><div>
</div><div>And my test case is here:</div><div><a href="http://test.learningjquery.com/selector-bug.html">http://test.learningjquery.com/selector-bug.html</a></div><div>
</div><div> <div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>--Karl</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">____________</div><div>Karl Swedberg</div><div><a href="http://www.englishrules.com">www.englishrules.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.learningjquery.com">www.learningjquery.com</a></div><div>
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