Fix #11280. IE6-8 need name attribute to parse param. Close gh-914.

AUTHORS.txt

@@ -132,4 +132,5 @@ Elijah Manor <elijah.manor@gmail.com>
 Daniel Chatfield <chatfielddaniel@gmail.com>
 Nikita Govorov <nikita.govorov@gmail.com>
 Michael Pennisi <mike@mikepennisi.com>
-Markus Staab <markus.staab@redaxo.de>
+Markus Staab <markus.staab@redaxo.de>
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+Daniel Gálvez <dgalvez@editablething.com>
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src/manipulation.js

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ var nodeNames = "abbr|article|aside|audio|bdi|canvas|data|datalist|details|figca
 		_default: [ 0, "", "" ]
 	},
 	safeFragment = createSafeFragment( document ),
-	fragmentDiv = safeFragment.appendChild( document.createElement("div") );
+	fragmentDiv = safeFragment.appendChild( document.createElement("div") ),
+	addMandatoryAttributes = function( elem ) { return elem; };
 
 wrapMap.optgroup = wrapMap.option;
 wrapMap.tbody = wrapMap.tfoot = wrapMap.colgroup = wrapMap.caption = wrapMap.thead;
@@ -49,6 +50,23 @@ wrapMap.th = wrapMap.td;
 // unless wrapped in a div with non-breaking characters in front of it.
 if ( !jQuery.support.htmlSerialize ) {
 	wrapMap._default = [ 1, "X<div>", "</div>" ];
+	// Fixes #11280
+	wrapMap.param = [ 1, "X<object>", "</object>" ];
+	// Fixes #11280. HTMLParam name attribute added to avoid IE6-8 parsing issue.
+	addMandatoryAttributes = function( elem ) {
+		// If it's a param
+		return elem.replace(/<param([^>]*)>/gi, function( m, s1, offset ) {
+			var name = s1.match( /name=["']([^"']*)["']/i );
+			return name ?
+				( name[1].length ?
+				// It has a name attr with a value
+				"<param" + s1 + ">" :
+				// It has name attr without a value
+				"<param" + s1.replace( name[0], "name='_" + offset +  "'" ) + ">" ) :
+				// No name attr
+				"<param name='_" + offset +  "' " + s1 + ">";
+		});
+	};
 }
 
 jQuery.fn.extend({
@@ -674,7 +692,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 					tag = ( rtagName.exec( elem ) || ["", ""] )[1].toLowerCase();
 					wrap = wrapMap[ tag ] || wrapMap._default;
 					depth = wrap[0];
-					div.innerHTML = wrap[1] + elem + wrap[2];
+					div.innerHTML = wrap[1] + addMandatoryAttributes( elem ) + wrap[2];
 
 					// Move to the right depth
 					while ( depth-- ) {

test/unit/manipulation.js

@@ -469,6 +469,38 @@ test("append(Function)", function() {
 	testAppend(manipulationFunctionReturningObj);
 });
 
+test("append(param) to object, see #11280", function() {
+	expect(11);
+
+	var objectElement = document.createElement("object"),
+	    $objectElement = jQuery( objectElement ),
+	    paramElement = jQuery("<param type='wmode' value='transparent'/>"),
+	    paramElement2 = jQuery("<param name='' type='wmode2' value='transparent2' />"),
+	    paramElement3 = jQuery("<param type='wmode' name='foo' >"),
+	    newObject = jQuery("<object><param type='foo' ><param name='' value='foo2'/><param type='baz' name='bar'></object>");
+
+	equal( objectElement.childNodes.length, 0, "object did not have childNodes previously" );
+
+	document.body.appendChild( objectElement );
+
+	$objectElement.append( paramElement );
+	equal( $objectElement.children().length, 1, "param single insertion ok" );
+	equal( jQuery(objectElement.childNodes[0]).attr("type"), "wmode", "param.eq(0) has type=wmode" );
+
+	$objectElement.html( paramElement2 );
+	equal( $objectElement.children().length, 1, "param single insertion ok" );
+	equal( jQuery(objectElement.childNodes[0]).attr("type"), "wmode2", "param.eq(0) has type=wmode2" );
+
+	$objectElement.html( paramElement3 );
+	equal( $objectElement.children().length, 1, "param single insertion ok" );
+	equal( jQuery(objectElement.childNodes[0]).attr("name"), "foo", "param.eq(0) has name=foo" );
+
+	equal( newObject.children().length, 3, "param wrapper multiple insertion ok" );
+	equal( newObject.children().eq(0).attr("type"), "foo", "param.eq(0) has type=foo" );
+	equal( newObject.children().eq(1).attr("value"), "foo2", "param.eq(1) has value=foo2" );
+	equal( newObject.children().eq(2).attr("name"), "bar", "param.eq(2) has name=bar" );
+});
+
 test("append(Function) with incoming value", function() {
 	expect(12);