error: Unmatched selector: 's

[lookfirst]

First off, thanks for a brilliant project. I'm using cheerio 0.8.0:

My code looks like this:

$($(cols.get(3)).html())

The html returned from the $(cols.get(3)).html() looks like this:

Kid&#39;s Ride&nbsp;<br/>Foo&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp;<br/><font color="#000000">Permitted</font><br/>Category - D&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/><br/>\n

When I try to wrap that output back into the outer $() so that I can do more selects on it, this is the stack trace I see:

    at parse (node_modules/cheerio/node_modules/cheerio-select/node_modules/CSSselect/node_modules/CSSwhat/index.js:109:11)\n    
    at parse (node_modules/cheerio/node_modules/cheerio-select/node_modules/CSSselect/index.js:646:18)\n    
    at Function.iterate (node_modules/cheerio/node_modules/cheerio-select/node_modules/CSSselect/index.js:687:42)\n    
    at node_modules/cheerio/node_modules/cheerio-select/lib/select.js:13:20    
    at [object Object].find (node_modules/cheerio/lib/api/traversing.js:7:14)
    at [object Object].init (node_modules/cheerio/lib/cheerio.js:67:44)
    at node_modules/cheerio/lib/cheerio.js:11:12
    at fn (node_modules/cheerio/lib/api/utils.js:246:12)

I suspect it has something to do with the entity (') in there as other similar html without the single quote in it parses just fine.

[matthewmueller]

Hm... I'll look into this. For the time being you should be able to do... $(cols).eq(3).

[matthewmueller]

Oh I see what's going on... it's thinking that the string is a selector and not an HTML string.. strange.

Edit: jQuery does not even recognize that as an HTML string. It handles the response a bit more gracefully though with [].

[lookfirst]

Similar problem with this html:

Eastern States Cup #8-fin&nbsp;<br>Downhill&nbsp;

Results in:

Error: Unmatched selector:&nbsp;<br/>Downhill&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp;

While $(cols).eq(3) works, I still need to parse that line of text and grab stuff from it.

[lookfirst]

$('<div/>').html(cols.eq(3).html().replace(/&nbsp;/g, ' ')).eq(0).children()

I'm no expert, so that is the best I could do. Gross. =)

[matthewmueller]

Okay, I'll make adjustments so that it does not error out, but just to be clear - jQuery returns [] on $('Eastern States Cup #8-fin&nbsp;<br>Downhill&nbsp;').. this is the behavior your anticipating?

[lookfirst]

I vote for making it work correctly... which would be to parse it as if it was living inside a <div>. I didn't write this html, someone else did so I'm stuck with junk html. Right now, it sits within a <td> element. I grab the chunk of data from the td and then I want to grab bits from there. I either need to write my own parser or just assume that it is more html. Given that this project is supposed to be lenient to bad html, I think it should give me a set of elements.

[matthewmueller]

I'm not planning on deviating from how jQuery handles this case. For your use case you could explicitly wrap your input in <div> tags.