Closed
Bug 131169
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Mozilla treats white-spaces as Text-Nodes
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)
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People
(Reporter: aceop, Assigned: jst)
Details
I have been told that Mozilla, in opposite to Opera and IE, treats white-spaces
such as "space" or CR/LF as text-nodes (like the IE5 for Macintosh also does).
Well, people are confused whether this is standard conforming behaviour.
I also didn't find anything about how to handle white-spaces, maybe because I
didn't search too intensive.
Anyway, this piece of code (taken from the famous german HTML documentation
selfhtml - with permission) demonstrates the problem:
<html><head><title>Test</title>
</head><body>
<ul id="ersteListe"><li>erster Punkt</li><li>zweiter Punkt</li></ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var Anzahl = document.getElementById("ersteListe").childNodes.length;
document.write("first list: ammount child nodes: <b>" + Anzahl +"<\/b><br>");
//-->
</script>
<ul id="zweiteListe">
<li>erster Punkt</li> <li>zweiter Punkt</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var Anzahl = document.getElementById("zweiteListe").childNodes.length;
document.write("second list: ammount child nodes: <b>" + Anzahl +"<\/b><br>");
//-->
</script>
</body></html>
So, if the behaviour of Mozilla is wrong I think that's almost a critical bug.
If not, I'd really like to know where it's written down that Mozilla is right.
Peter
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Comment 2•23 years ago
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Of course we do. Whitespace is text. It affects formatting of the source, and
it also affects the DOM's internal structure.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26179 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: DOM: Core → DOM: Core & HTML
QA Contact: stummala → general
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