From: timmywil <tim.willison@thisismedium.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:10:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: No longer need to check for objects or string of null with the special form treatment... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.6b1~27^2~17
X-Git-Url: https://source.dussan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=448111cbd432864d0ae03c70ae321e97de989e9b;p=jquery.git

No longer need to check for objects or string of null with the special form treatment and updates to removeAttr
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diff --git a/src/attributes.js b/src/attributes.js
index bfeb6c4e1..44b16825b 100644
--- a/src/attributes.js
+++ b/src/attributes.js
@@ -328,8 +328,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 				ret = elem.getAttribute( name );
 
 				// Non-existent attributes return null, we normalize to undefined
-				// Instead of checking for null, we check for typeof object to catch inputs in IE6/7. Bug #7472
-				return typeof ret === "object" || ret === "null" ?
+				return ret === null ?
 					undefined :
 					ret;
 			}