Ticket #2604: clean-comments.diff

core.js

@@ -949 +949 @@
 
             // Convert html string into DOM nodes
             if ( typeof elem == "string" ) {
-                // Fix "XHTML"-style tags in all browsers
-                elem = elem.replace(/(<(\w+)[^>]*?)\/>/g, function(all, front, tag){
-                    return tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area|embed)$/i) ?
-                        all :
-                        front + "></" + tag + ">";
-                });
+                
+                elem = elem
+                    // Remove comment nodes
+                    .replace(/<!--.*?-->/g, "")
+                    // Fix "XHTML"-style tags in all browsers
+                    .replace(/(<(\w+)[^>]*?)\/>/g, function(all, front, tag){
+                        return tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area|embed)$/i) ?
+                            all :
+                            front + "></" + tag + ">";
+                    });
 
                 // Trim whitespace, otherwise indexOf won't work as expected
                 var tags = jQuery.trim( elem ).toLowerCase(), div = context.createElement("div");