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, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/jqLiteSpec.js b/test/jqLiteSpec.js
index 931f9b2e..a98e94b9 100644
--- a/test/jqLiteSpec.js
+++ b/test/jqLiteSpec.js
@@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ describe('jqLite', function() {
     });
 
 
+    it('should allow construction of html with leading whitespace', function() {
+      var nodes = jqLite('  \n\r   \r\n<div>1</div><span>2</span>');
+      expect(nodes[0].parentNode).toBeDefined();
+      expect(nodes[0].parentNode.nodeType).toBe(11); /** Document Fragment **/;
+      expect(nodes[0].parentNode).toBe(nodes[1].parentNode);
+      expect(nodes.length).toBe(2);
+      expect(nodes[0].innerHTML).toBe('1');
+      expect(nodes[1].innerHTML).toBe('2');
+    });
+
+
     it('should allow creation of comment tags', function() {
       var nodes = jqLite('<!-- foo -->');
       expect(nodes.length).toBe(1);