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Asked: 2026-06-17T05:39:10+00:00

Update: Question edited to add more information. My app directly views XML data in

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Update: Question edited to add more information.

My app directly views XML data in a browser — after some light client-side XSLT processing that we can assume here is just the identity transform inside a thin HTML wrapper.

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="no" encoding="utf-8" />

<xsl:template match ="/">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
    <head>

    </head>
    <body>

      <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
      </xsl:template>

    </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

With jQuery 1.8.3, this

$("*[target]").click(function (event) {
    alert("click");
});

will (or should) select elements that have a @target attribute.

This works fine in IE and Chrome, but in Firefox jQuery won’t select anything unless I change the XSLT output to “html”, which messes up other things.

What is the correct way, in Firefox, to get jQuery to select non-HTML, XML elements or — which might be saying the same thing a different way — to get jQuery to select custom HTML elements?

Update: Found source of problem. The selectors do not select because they are inside $(document).ready() and that does not fire for XML documents styled with XSLT (output=’xml’) in Firefox. Someone else with same problem: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/document-ready-with-xslt-in-xhtml

I haven’t found a combination of parameters and code order to get it to fire. My workaround so far is to use $(window).load() instead of $(document).ready().

More Update There is now a jQuery bug report for this, #13193. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13193

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  1. Editorial Team

    Wrap jQuery code in 

    $(window).load(function(){
    // jQuery bindings here
});

    instead of 

    $(document).ready(function(){
    // jQuery bindings here
});

    This will delay availability of the jQuery bindings, but they will get made

    jQuery team has accepted this as a bug. http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13193

    Switch back to $(document).ready once the bug is fixed.

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