Disabled the passthrough .attr(method_name) functionality. You can now use it if you do: .attr({method_name: value}, true) OR as an easy initialization method: jQuery('<div/>', {html: '...', id: 'test'}).

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/attributes.js b/src/attributes.js
index 90f3062ed..e7e5d378d 100644
--- a/src/attributes.js
+++ b/src/attributes.js
@@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		offset: true
 	},
 		
-	attr: function( elem, name, value ) {
+	attr: function( elem, name, value, pass ) {
 		// don't set attributes on text and comment nodes
 		if ( !elem || elem.nodeType === 3 || elem.nodeType === 8 ) {
 			return undefined;
 		}
 
-		if ( name in jQuery.attrFn && value !== undefined ) {
+		if ( pass && name in jQuery.attrFn ) {
 			return jQuery(elem)[name](value);
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index bc48e5d47..0c0d5a2e1 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -84,7 +84,13 @@ jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
 					ret = rsingleTag.exec( selector );
 
 					if ( ret ) {
-						selector = [ doc.createElement( ret[1] ) ];
+						if ( jQuery.isPlainObject( context ) ) {
+							selector = [ document.createElement( ret[1] ) ];
+							jQuery.fn.attr.call( selector, context, true );
+
+						} else {
+							selector = [ doc.createElement( ret[1] ) ];
+						}
 
 					} else {
 						ret = buildFragment( [ match[1] ], [ doc ] );
@@ -687,13 +693,13 @@ function evalScript( i, elem ) {
 
 // Mutifunctional method to get and set values to a collection
 // The value/s can be optionally by executed if its a function
-function access( elems, key, value, exec, fn ) {
+function access( elems, key, value, exec, fn, pass ) {
 	var length = elems.length;
 	
 	// Setting many attributes
 	if ( typeof key === "object" ) {
 		for ( var k in key ) {
-			access( elems, k, key[k], exec, fn );
+			access( elems, k, key[k], exec, fn, value );
 		}
 		return elems;
 	}
@@ -704,7 +710,7 @@ function access( elems, key, value, exec, fn ) {
 		exec = exec && jQuery.isFunction(value);
 		
 		for ( var i = 0; i < length; i++ ) {
-			fn( elems[i], key, exec ? value.call( elems[i], i ) : value );
+			fn( elems[i], key, exec ? value.call( elems[i], i ) : value, pass );
 		}
 		
 		return elems;