Comment nodes are discarded from a merge, for no apparent reason. Fixes #5438.

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index f605e1d..ff31e81 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -444,19 +444,8 @@ jQuery.extend({
                // expando of getElementsByTagName
                var i = 0, elem, pos = first.length;
 
-               // Also, we need to make sure that the correct elements are being returned
-               // (IE returns comment nodes in a '*' query)
-               if ( !jQuery.support.getAll ) {
-                       while ( (elem = second[ i++ ]) != null ) {
-                               if ( elem.nodeType !== 8 ) {
-                                       first[ pos++ ] = elem;
-                               }
-                       }
-
-               } else {
-                       while ( (elem = second[ i++ ]) != null ) {
-                               first[ pos++ ] = elem;
-                       }
+               while ( (elem = second[ i++ ]) != null ) {
+                       first[ pos++ ] = elem;
                }
 
                return first;