fix(jqLite): trim HTML string in jqLite constructor

jQuery will construct DOM nodes containing leading whitespace. Prior to this change, jqLite would
throw a nosel minErr due to the first character of the string not being '<'. This change corrects
this behaviour by trimming the element string in jqLite constructor before testing for '<'.

Closes #6053

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/jqLite.js b/src/jqLite.js
index e5980514..f48dd3c0 100644
--- a/src/jqLite.js
+++ b/src/jqLite.js
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ function JQLite(element) {
   if (element instanceof JQLite) {
     return element;
   }
+  if (isString(element)) {
+    element = trim(element);
+  }
   if (!(this instanceof JQLite)) {
     if (isString(element) && element.charAt(0) != '<') {
       throw jqLiteMinErr('nosel', 'Looking up elements via selectors is not supported by jqLite! See: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/angular.element');