1037610 - Anchor element not-in-document should still have activation behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1218456

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Currently
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = "http://www.mozilla.org";
a.click();
doesn't work, but per spec it should.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#following-hyperlinks-2
("Let source be the browsing context that contains the Document object with which subject in question is associated." is vague, but will be fixed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26310 )

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that I expect we have old bugs on this that will need dupping forward.