Fix #13076. Speed up $() with strings, part of gh-1089.

diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index 639ed4b642b5602a2d0db47deaf80704bffb7e73..62df6f5a5f17ac36bf07cfadbae989fc34061f1b 100644 (file)
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -156,4 +156,4 @@ Matthias Jäggli <matthias.jaeggli@gmail.com>
 Yiming He <yiminghe@gmail.com>
 Devin Cooper <cooper.semantics@gmail.com>
 Bennett Sorbo <bsorbo@gmail.com>
- 
\ No newline at end of file
+Sebastian Burkhard <sebi.burkhard@gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 844eb159364f1e51970688884e99274af6f8c430..5927d1936016f0d2815dcf2fa862284dbd597753 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
                        return this;
                }
 
-               // HANDLE: $(DOMElement)
-               if ( selector.nodeType ) {
+               // HANDLE: $(DOMElement); check first that selector is not a primitive
+               if ( typeof selector === "object" && selector.nodeType ) {
                        this.context = this[0] = selector;
                        this.length = 1;
                        return this;