A jQuery custom selector for 'not hidden' elements

I was working on a project of mine that also has some unit tests. In one of them, the HTML structure is abstracted and sent as a jQuery created element to a page script. However, the script uses the custom jQuery selector :visible, which completely fails in this case. You see, none of the elements are visible unless added to the DOM of a page. The original jQuery selector goes directly to existing browser methods to check for visibility:

jQuery.expr.filters.visible = function( elem ) {

    // Support: Opera <= 12.12
    // Opera reports offsetWidths and offsetHeights less than zero on some elements
    // Use OR instead of AND as the element is not visible if either is true
    // See tickets #10406 and #13132
    return elem.offsetWidth > 0 || elem.offsetHeight > 0 || elem.getClientRects().length > 0;
};

So I've decided to write my own simple selector which replaces it. Here it is:

$.extend($.expr[':'], {
    nothidden : function (el) {
        el=$(el);
        while (el.length) {
            if (el[0].ownerDocument===null) break;
            if (el.css('display')=='none') return false;
            el=el.parent();
        }
        return true;
    }
});

It goes from the selected element to its parent, recursively, until it doesn't find anything or finds some parent which is with display none. I was only interested in the CSS display property, so if you want extra stuff like visibility or opacity, change it yourself. What I wanted to talk about was that strange ownerDocument property check. It all stems from a quirk in jQuery which causes $(document).css(...) to fail. The team decided to ignore the bug report regarding it. But, the question is, what happens when I create an element with jQuery and don't attach it to the DOM? Well, behind the scene, all elements are being created with document.createElement or document.createDocumentFragment which, it makes sense, fill the ownerDocument property with the document object that created the element. The only link in the chain that doesn't have an ownerDocument is the document itself. You might want to remember this in case you want to go up the .parent() ladder yourself.

Now, warning: I just wrote this and it might fail in some weird document in document cases, like IFRAMEs and stuff like that. I have not tested it except my use case, which luckily involves only one type of browser.