Closed Bug 118327 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

appendChild() throws exception

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: golam, Assigned: jst)

References

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020102
BuildID:    2002010203

It seems like appendChild method doesn't working at all.
I've check example from http://mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref32.html#1018978
 - it throws exception too.
See testcase for more details.

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Node cannot be inserted at the
specified point in the hierarchy"  code: "3" nsresult: "0x80530003
(NS_ERROR_DOM_HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR)"  location:
"file:///H:/tests/mbugs/bug6.html Line: 6"]

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open testcase
2. open JS console


Actual Results:  exception

Expected Results:  appended element
Attached file testcase — 

    
    

    
  
Here's why:
Per the DOM spec
(http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-core.html $1.1.1)
a document can only have one element child. In your example, your document
already has a <body> child, and you're adding another div child. So we throw an
exception.
Similarly, the dom reference example will work only when the document has no
child element yet. I will add a comment in bug 93108 about it.
Thanks for finding this problem!

The correct way to add an element as child of the body tag, is to do
document.body.appendChild(..)

Marking the bug invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID

    
    

    
  
verified invalid
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 344333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
    

    
  
*** Bug 293238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

    
  
Component: DOM: Core → DOM: Core & HTML
QA Contact: stummala → general

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