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"Matches all elements." http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/all

This selector failed in initial testing. The red border example makes testing very easy.

The selection works up until this line of code in the HTML: 

<script language="javascript">

$("*").css("border","3px solid red","font-family","courier");

</script>

After this line, none of the elements will be selected. Go figure. If I move it to the top of the JSP then nothing will be selected within the HTML generated by this JSP. We have several levels of includes in the JSP files so this is problematic. If I move it all to the first line after the <body> element as specified in the install directions for jquery then nothing is selected. If I place the selector call as the last line before the end, </body>, then it works as expected.

I also tried 

<script type='text/javascript'  charset="utf-8">

Not sure why the selector fails to select everything. This is in Firefox 3.0.4. It may very well be we have some other javascript libraries in use and perhaps these conflict. We do not have scriptacluous etc referred here.

Perhaps this is a jquery bug. Can anyone confirm this does work elsewhere?

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