Make sure that we don't try to use a detached node (that was in a fragment) as a fragment in IE. Fixes #5829.

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index 1453f98c5..a10feae93 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 			parent = value && value.parentNode;
 
 			// If we're in a fragment, just use that instead of building a new one
-			if ( parent && parent.nodeType === 11 && parent.childNodes.length === this.length ) {
+			if ( jQuery.support.parentNode && parent && parent.nodeType === 11 && parent.childNodes.length === this.length ) {
 				results = { fragment: parent };
 
 			} else {
diff --git a/src/support.js b/src/support.js
index befc53272..c9ff58c36 100644
--- a/src/support.js
+++ b/src/support.js
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
 		// (WebKit defaults to false instead of true, IE too, if it's in an optgroup)
 		optSelected: document.createElement("select").appendChild( document.createElement("option") ).selected,
 
+		parentNode: div.removeChild( div.appendChild( document.createElement("div") ) ).parentNode === null,
+
 		// Will be defined later
 		checkClone: false,
 		scriptEval: false,
diff --git a/test/unit/manipulation.js b/test/unit/manipulation.js
index 2492ca5d8..eafbf25fc 100644
--- a/test/unit/manipulation.js
+++ b/test/unit/manipulation.js
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ test("append(Function) with incoming value", function() {
 });
 
 test("appendTo(String|Element|Array<Element>|jQuery)", function() {
-	expect(13);
+	expect(14);
+
 	var defaultText = 'Try them out:'
 	jQuery('<b>buga</b>').appendTo('#first');
 	equals( jQuery("#first").text(), defaultText + 'buga', 'Check if text appending works' );
@@ -429,6 +430,15 @@ test("appendTo(String|Element|Array&lt;Element&gt;|jQuery)", function() {
 	jQuery("<span>a</span><b>b</b>").filter("span").appendTo( div );
 
 	equals( div.children().length, 1, "Make sure the right number of children were inserted." );
+
+	div = jQuery("#moretests div");
+
+	var num = jQuery("#main div").length;
+	div.remove().appendTo("#main");
+
+	equals( jQuery("#main div").length, num, "Make sure all the removed divs were inserted." );
+
+	reset();
 });
 
 var testPrepend = function(val) {