jQuery parseHTML returns undefined on TITLE tag in IE8

Question

When trying to parse the string <title>Hello</title> to html by using jquery parseHTML function, it return undefined in IE8. (I've tested it on Browser/Document Mode in IE devtools)

$.parseHTML("<title>hello</title>")[0].nodeName

The above works well on IE9,IE10 by returning TITLE. It even got stranger when I found out that it ignores <title> tag completely.

$.parseHTML("<title>hello</title><h1>Heading</h1>")[0].nodeName

The code above expected to returns TITLE but in IE8 it returns H1, which shows the bug ignores title tag. I use jquery 1.10.2, I've tested older jquery releases, all had the same issue.

How can I fix this ?