From 5c2d70979c15bbda5c90e1634abe11d8c350abcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jordan Boesch <jboesch26@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:30:29 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] bug 6158; fixing replaceWith from throwing errors on empty
 elements

---
 src/manipulation.js |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index ba31697..a4a81de 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 				}
 			});
 		} else {
+            if ( !this.length ) {
+                return this;
+            }
 			return this.pushStack( jQuery(jQuery.isFunction(value) ? value() : value), "replaceWith", value );
 		}
 	},
-- 
1.7.10.4