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jQuery IE8 HTML parse bug

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Apparently in IE8 only, there are bugs with the jQuery HTML parser.

var $el = $('<span class="sub-features">');
// $el[0] == undefined

Only this works:

$('<span class="sub-features"></span>');
// $el[0] == {...}

or this (without attributes in the tag):

$('<span>').addClass('sub-features');
// $el[0] == {...}

Apparently this only affect inline elements - <b ...>, etc. Block-level elements such as <div ...> seem fine.

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