114380 - Properties .text of Link object and .innerText of any must contain ALT of image tags and VALUE of buttons.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Manko]

When i use .text or .innerText properties i expect to get any text information
from selected container, including ALT of images and VALUE of buttons.
Simple demo
<a href="page.html" onclick="alert(this.text);"><img src="myimg.png" alt="Sample
image" /></a>
must display alert window with "Sample Text" within.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

dom0

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

.text is working as designed (for Netscape 4 compatibility).

We seem to be returning the same thing for .innerText as for .text, which seems
odd.

Fabian?  :)

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

1) I don't think we don't support innertext
2) We coded (well I did so I must know :-) HTMLAnchorElement.text to match what
NS4 does, and last time I checked it returned text only when there was actually
a text node, not when there was an image.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We support .innerText fine... try it out.  :)

I can't find what interface it lives on, though...

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ok.. looks like I was having cache issues.  We do not in fact support
innerText...

I suggest marking this invalid, as .text is working as intended.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

INVALID, neither .innerText (if it was supported) nor .text should show non-text
content, alt text on images is not text content in the DOM. Not even IE behaves
this oddly.

INVALID.