jQuery cannot parse HTML strings with prefixed white space?

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Whether it be a tab space, one regular space or many, jQuery cries Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: <div></div>

Here's the code in jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dc8fK/

Here's the code:

console.log( $("<div></div>") );    // works
console.log( $(" <div></div>") );   // not

Aside from searching and removing any prefixed white space, is there a better, more official way of dealing with this?

SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-07 00:28:50Z

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You should call $.parseHTML(), which can parse arbitrary HTML strings.

answered Jun 7, 2013 at 0:28

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Joybroto · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-07 00:35:13Z

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Notably, $(“<html>”) syntax now requires the first character to be ‘<’ to indicate an HTML template. So in places where you have whitespace, you can fix with a call to “trim”.

Although, As Slaks mentioned n according to me explicit call to $.parseHTML would fix it best.

answered Jun 7, 2013 at 0:35

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Steven Vachon Over a year ago

trim() actually fixes the specific issue that I was having. I'd left those details out to keep the description simple.

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