150020 - Problem with div properties

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Thierry Fahmy]

Hi,

The below page can be successfully viewed with IE4, IE5, IE6, NS4, NS4.75
http://www.xlstat.com/popup.htm

It cannot with Mozilla 1.0 although the syntax is correct.

Regards,

Thierry Fahmy

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

Layers isn't supported by Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

The syntax is incorrect, just read
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html.

This is invalid.

Comment 3

[Thierry Fahmy]

The bug on http://www.xlstat.com/popup.htm happens on line 
newsDiv = nouv.style;

nouv is the ID of the <DIV>. I think the syntax is correct

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No, it is not.  "nouv.style" means "window.nouv.style".  IE happens to export
every div with an ID into the global (window) namespace.  Mozilla does not, for
various reasons including not cluttering the global namespace.  Other browsers
may or may not do it, depending on the considerations of the developers.  It is
by no means guaranteed to work.

If you use "document.getElementById('nouv').style" that will work in every
browser you list except NS4.x and will also work in Mozilla and any other
DOM-compliant browser (Opera, Konqueror, etc). Since NS4 does not run that
branch anyway, this should be a safe change.

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

At any rate, this is a DOM issue, not a JS Engine issue.
Reassigning to DOM Level 0 -

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

And resolving as Invalid per Boris' observation in Comment #4.
Thierry, thank you for this report -