jQuery doesn't support .has in IE8? what is a work around?

Question

code: http://jsfiddle.net/4hV6c/4/ just make any selection, and you'll get a script error in ie8

I'm trying to do this:

$(end_node.parentNode).has(start_node)

which in modern browsers (chrome, ff, opera, etc) returns [] if start_node is not in end_node.parentNode, and returns the element (I forget which) if it is found.

now, end_node is a text element, and the parentNode is an actual DOM entity. IE will perform .has on just $(end_node).has(start_node) but that is obviously different behavior.

Is there a work around to get this to work?

• in IE the fiddle will error, other browsers will alert you with a boolean value.

UPDATE: here is a word around that overrides .has() for my specific scenario.. not sure if it works for all the cases of .has, as I don't know them all. http://jsfiddle.net/8F57r/13/

Answer 1

The problem is not jQuery

Running

console.log( $("div:has(span)").html() );
console.log( $("div").has($("span")[0]).html() );

However, the following throws an exception http://jsfiddle.net/mendesjuan/4hV6c/8/

var textNode =  $("span")[0].childNodes[0];
$("div").has(textNode);

What that means is that you can't pass a text node into $.has. You should file a bug with jQuery

The line that is erroring out is giving the following message

No such interface supported jquery-1.7.1.js, line 5244 character 3

That is trying to call the contains method on a node. What that means is that this really is an IE bug that jQuery hasn't worked around. I've reproduced the problem without needing to call $.has http://jsfiddle.net/4hV6c/10/

// This is broken in IE
var textNode =  $("span")[0].childNodes[0];
var divNode = $("div")[0];
divNode.contains(textNode);

Workaround http://jsfiddle.net/4hV6c/12/

function contains(outer, inner) {
   var current = inner;
    do {
        if (current == outer) {
           return true;
        }
    } while((current = current.parentNode) != document.body);

    return false;

}
rangy.init();

$(document).bind("mouseup", function() {
    var a = rangy.getSelection();
    start_node = a.anchorNode;
    end_node = a.focusNode;
    var b = a.getRangeAt(0);
    var c = b.commonAncestorContainer;
    b.selectNodeContents(c);
    a.setSingleRange(b);
    alert( contains( end_node.parentNode, start_node) );
});