jquery core: Closes #3255. The div used in jQuery.clean is emptied in the end. Cleani...

[jquery.git] / src / core.js

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index b35abad..0e02436 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -909,13 +909,14 @@ jQuery.extend({
        },
 
        clean: function( elems, context, fragment ) {
-               var ret = [], scripts = [];
                context = context || document;
 
                // !context.createElement fails in IE with an error but returns typeof 'object'
                if ( typeof context.createElement === "undefined" )
                        context = context.ownerDocument || context[0] && context[0].ownerDocument || document;
 
+               var ret = [], scripts = [], div = context.createElement("div");
+
                jQuery.each(elems, function(i, elem){
                        if ( typeof elem === "number" )
                                elem += '';
@@ -933,7 +934,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
                                });
 
                                // Trim whitespace, otherwise indexOf won't work as expected
-                               var tags = jQuery.trim( elem ).toLowerCase(), div = context.createElement("div");
+                               var tags = jQuery.trim( elem ).toLowerCase();
 
                                var wrap =
                                        // option or optgroup
@@ -1009,6 +1010,9 @@ jQuery.extend({
                                ret = jQuery.merge( ret, elem );
 
                });
+
+               // Clean up
+               div.innerHTML = "";
                
                if ( fragment ) {
                        for ( var i = 0; ret[i]; i++ ) {