IE prunes whitespace from the start of innerHTML-injected strings. This fixes that.

diff --git a/src/jquery/jquery.js b/src/jquery/jquery.js
index 705a5bb..a0a2009 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jquery/jquery.js
+++ b/src/jquery/jquery.js
@@ -1587,7 +1587,11 @@ jQuery.extend({
                                        for ( var n = tb.length-1; n >= 0 ; --n )
                                                if ( jQuery.nodeName(tb[n], "tbody") && !tb[n].childNodes.length )
                                                        tb[n].parentNode.removeChild(tb[n]);
-                                       
+       
+                                       // IE completely kills leading whitespace when innerHTML is used        
+                                       if ( /^\s/.test(arg) )  
+                                               div.insertBefore( doc.createTextNode( arg.match(/^\s*/)[0] ), div.firstChild );
+
                                }
                                
                                arg = jQuery.makeArray( div.childNodes );