issue on Google Chrome??

Hi,

during fixing one xhtml page, I found very strange behavior of Google Chrome.
There was a placeholder div containing ' ' only.
While IE, FF, Opera, Safari gave value of innerHTML as a string (' '), Chrome returned space. That would be OK, but the strange thing is that it is not ordinary space. I mean you cannot use if(the_div.innerHTML == " "), it simply won't evaluate this condition as true. The only way I found around was to use charCodeAt() and check if it's equal 160.

Maybe I missed something, that's why I'm asking here if you experienced similar problem, or found some explanation. Is it bug on Chrome, or just design?
I also found similar problem here: http://groups.google.com/group/goog...g/browse_thread/thread/7a7071a886163145?pli=1
but with no reply....

Not sure if it's clear what I mean, so here is very basic code sample :

<div id="d">&nbsp;</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
 var cont=document.getElementById('d').innerHTML;
 if(cont == '&nbsp;') alert('nbsp');
 if(cont == ' ') alert('space');
 if(cont.charCodeAt() == 160) alert('charCodeAt')
</script>

Code (markup):

Btw. the same behavior is repro using & # 160;

Thanks for any ideas, advices.

 

I got answer on SitePoint, Google Chrome v.2 doesn't have this problem anymore, so just in the case you will need to evaluate  , for compatibility remember charCodeAt()