title: remove jQuery function does not work with ie7 (removing td tags)
body: <p>I have this code (<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/y08qr7en/6/" rel="nofollow">jsfiddle link here</a>) and all the remove functions work except for the part where I'm removing the td tags.</p>
  
  <p>my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;table border="1"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td class="class" rowspan="3"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;02&amp;nbsp;mar&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;02&amp;nbsp;mar&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;tuesday
              &lt;br&gt;(once-only)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;800&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;900&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;biological&amp;nbsp;sciences, lecture&amp;nbsp;theatre&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td class="class" rowspan="999"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;27&amp;nbsp;apr&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;27&amp;nbsp;apr&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;tuesday
              &lt;br&gt;(once-only)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;800&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;900&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;biological&amp;nbsp;sciences, lecture&amp;nbsp;theatre&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
          &lt;td class="class" rowspan="999"&gt;(1)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;18&amp;nbsp;may&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;18&amp;nbsp;may&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;tuesday
              &lt;br&gt;(once-only)&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;800&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;900&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;biological&amp;nbsp;sciences, lecture&amp;nbsp;theatre&lt;/td&gt;
          &lt;td class="class"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://google.com"&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://google.com"&gt;link2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://google.com" target="_blank"&gt;link3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://google.com"&gt;link4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://google.com" target="_blank"&gt;link5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;button&gt;remove&lt;/button&gt;
  
   &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  $(document).ready(function() {
      $( "button" ).click(function() {
          $("td[rowspan='999']").remove();
          $("a[target='_blank']").remove();
      });
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on how to fix/solve this? I've searched the net but can't find anything there.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks very much</p>
  
  <p>ps. This same code works fine in recent browsers and IE8+. <strong>I am using native IE7 browser to test.</strong></p>
  
  <p>edit1: edited code to include $(document).ready. still not working.</p>
  
  <p>edit2: included  below the original jquery line and still not working.</p>
  
  <p>edit3: tried using http:// in the script src and no change.</p>
  
  <p>edit4: tried using jquery 1.8.3, 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 and it doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>edit5: enclosed parameter values in double quotes</p>