Question

I build my site on jQuery version 1.4.2 (not realizing about any updates) but now it doesn’t seem to work in IE8. When searching for a solution i thought about an update. When i use jQuery 1.7.1. however, some strange things occur. For example this example on jsFiddle

http://jsfiddle.net/64d2T/

When running this example in 1.4.4 it works fine, but when i run the code in 1.7.1 the format is messed up.

Does anybody know this problem and i’m a doing some basic stuff wrong?

Answer 1

the .add() method seems to be working differently … providing a context fixes the problem :

http://jsfiddle.net/64d2T/5/

Replacing :

$(this).find('.news-title-description').add('.news-meta').add('.news-item-link').add('.news-header').addClass('active-news-item');

with :

$(this).find('.news-title-description').add('.news-meta',$(this)).add('.news-item-link',$(this)).add('.news-header',$(this)).addClass('active-news-item');