Matching jquery .text() to

Question

Due to circumstances out of my control, SharePoint, I have the following piece of code.

var item = $(\' <         


        

Answer 1

Try checking for '\xa0' (which is the character created by  ):

var item = $(" ").text();
alert("'" + item + "' " + (item == '\xa0'));

http://jsfiddle.net/hUBeP/3/