Fix bug in IE where clone removes whitespace nodes.

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/Angular.js b/src/Angular.js
index 3e53c755..f7351bdc 100644
--- a/src/Angular.js
+++ b/src/Angular.js
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ if (msie) {
   };
 }
 
+function quickClone(element) {
+  return jqLite(element[0].cloneNode(true));
+}
+
 function isVisible(element) {
   var rect = element[0].getBoundingClientRect(),
       width = (rect.width || (rect.right||0 - rect.left||0)),
diff --git a/src/directives.js b/src/directives.js
index 4443cc9d..d2d3bf2c 100644
--- a/src/directives.js
+++ b/src/directives.js
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ angularWidget("@ng:repeat", function(expression, element){
             if (keyIdent) childScope[keyIdent] = key;
           } else {
             // grow children
-            childScope = template(element.clone(), createScope(currentScope));
+            childScope = template(quickClone(element), createScope(currentScope));
             childScope[valueIdent] = collection[key];
             if (keyIdent) childScope[keyIdent] = key;
             lastElement.after(childScope.$element);
diff --git a/src/widgets.js b/src/widgets.js
index 24eba900..127718ce 100644
--- a/src/widgets.js
+++ b/src/widgets.js
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ var ngSwitch = angularWidget('ng:switch', function (element){
       childScope = createScope(scope);
       foreach(cases, function(switchCase){
         if (switchCase.when(childScope, value)) {
-          var caseElement = switchCase.element.clone();
+          var caseElement = quickClone(switchCase.element);
           element.append(caseElement);
           childScope.$tryEval(switchCase.change, element);
           switchCase.template(caseElement, childScope);