jquery core: Allowing whitespaces within the [6026] addition.

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 8c4c09b..9330dd7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
                // If a single string is passed in and it's a single tag
                // just do a createElement and skip the rest
                if ( !fragment && elems.length === 1 && typeof elems[0] === "string" ) {
-                       var match = /^<(\w+)\/?>$/.exec(elems[0]);
+                       var match = /^<(\w+)\s*\/?>$/.exec(elems[0]);
                        if ( match )
                                return [ context.createElement( match[1] ) ];
                }