From 334462b23c3daca53f2fbff177693f0f1ba29c48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Resig <jeresig@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:14:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] IE prunes whitespace from the start of innerHTML-injected
 strings. This fixes that.

---
 src/jquery/jquery.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jquery/jquery.js b/src/jquery/jquery.js
index 705a5bb9..a0a20099 100644
--- a/src/jquery/jquery.js
+++ b/src/jquery/jquery.js
@@ -1587,7 +1587,11 @@ jQuery.extend({
 					for ( var n = tb.length-1; n >= 0 ; --n )
 						if ( jQuery.nodeName(tb[n], "tbody") && !tb[n].childNodes.length )
 							tb[n].parentNode.removeChild(tb[n]);
-					
+	
+					// IE completely kills leading whitespace when innerHTML is used	
+					if ( /^\s/.test(arg) )	
+						div.insertBefore( doc.createTextNode( arg.match(/^\s*/)[0] ), div.firstChild );
+
 				}
 				
 				arg = jQuery.makeArray( div.childNodes );