Only detach the incoming elements to replaceWith if they're DOM nodes. Fixes #5986.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index 2dccc7592..6f0373daa 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -268,16 +268,17 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 		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();
-
-			} else {
+			if ( jQuery.isFunction( value ) ) {
 				return this.each(function(i) {
 					var self = jQuery(this), old = self.html();
 					self.replaceWith( value.call( this, i, old ) );
 				});
 			}
 
+			if ( typeof value !== "string" ) {
+				value = jQuery(value).detach();
+			}
+
 			return this.each(function() {
 				var next = this.nextSibling, parent = this.parentNode;