> From: Arrix
>
> In IE, $('<tagname/>') fails with these elements A ABBR
> ACRONYM B BASEFONT BDO BIG BODY CENTER CITE CODE DEL DFN EM
> FONT FORM H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 HEAD HTML I INS KBD LABEL MAP Q S
> SAMP SMALL SPAN STRIKE STRONG SUB SUP TITLE TT U VAR
>
> IE is such an odd browser.
There's nothing odd about that. Those are not empty elements, so <tagname />
syntax is invalid for them.
Go to the W3 validator:
http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input
And paste this HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<b />
</body>
</html>
And see what it says...
-Mike
