Final pass at fixing #5785. Need to make sure that inner-nodes are detached before the remove() occurs (and it should still occur, the nodes are being obliterated.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index f2f6c7de6..3db2c3552 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -213,10 +213,16 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 
 	replaceWith: function( value ) {
 		if ( this[0] && this[0].parentNode ) {
+			// Make sure that the elements are removed from the DOM before they are inserted
+			// this can help fix replacing a parent with child elements
+			if ( !jQuery.isFunction( value ) ) {
+				value = jQuery( value ).detach();
+			}
+
 			return this.each(function() {
 				var next = this.nextSibling, parent = this.parentNode;
 
-				jQuery(this).detach();
+				jQuery(this).remove();
 
 				if ( next ) {
 					jQuery(next).before( value );