Attributes: remove unnecessary element null check

Close gh-2201

diff --git a/src/attributes/attr.js b/src/attributes/attr.js
index caf0bc018f65847f90b33d57cfef0d1afdfd305b..282893ea9510086e332228273be962e82643a3ed 100644 (file)
--- a/src/attributes/attr.js
+++ b/src/attributes/attr.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
                        nType = elem.nodeType;
 
                // don't get/set attributes on text, comment and attribute nodes
-               if ( !elem || nType === 3 || nType === 8 || nType === 2 ) {
+               if ( nType === 3 || nType === 8 || nType === 2 ) {
                        return;
                }