jQuery .hasClass() method fails for SVG elements

Question

I have a set of SVG elements with the classes node and link. My program should detect whether an element has the node class or the l

Answer 1

The class attribute for HTML element doesn't have the same meaning in SVG.

$("").addClass($(this).attr("class")).hasClass("node")

Or

/(^|\s)node(\s|$)/.test($(this).attr("class"))

for SVG elements.

EDIT .hasClass seems to work just fine (at least in IE9 and FF) http://jsfiddle.net/X6BPX/1/

So the problem could be any combination of the following: a syntax error, using an outdated browser, using an outdated version of jQuery.