Closed
Bug 301680
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
document.getElementsByTagName does not recurse through document tree
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
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VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: anthony.glenwright, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax) document.getElementsByTagName does not recurse through the document elements, it only returns top-level children of the document. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Browse to any web page (www.w3.org) 2. Open the Javascript console 3. Enter document.getElementsByTagName('*').length or document.getElementsByTagName('div').length. Actual Results: document.getElementsByTagName('*').length returns "4" document.getElementsByTagName('div').length returns "0" Expected Results: document.getElementsByTagName('*').length should return a number in the hundreds (for each element on the page). document.getElementsByTagName('div').length should return > 10 (I didn't count the number of DIV tags on www.w3.org, but it's more than 0) This also happens in code, but I'm including only the Javscript console method of verifying as a minimal test case.
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Comment 1•19 years ago
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I didn't mention - this happens in 1.0.4 and 1.0.6
Comment 2•19 years ago
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When you evaluate those expressions _in the javascript console_ you are evaluating them in the context of the console, not the currently open web page. If you open a web page (e.g, www.w3.org) and paste javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('*').length into the URL bar and hit enter you will see something like 505 in Mozilla 1.7.10 etc. INVALID.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Updated•19 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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