158307 - innerHTML cannot be changed in a xul file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133827

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

Description

[antonio]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2002071813

Problem happens with a XUL file (but NOT in HTML files!) 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. put the code, that I show you at the end of this, in a 
   file called bad_problem.xul
2. load in the browser the file bad_problem.xul
3. click the button 'Crash now!'

the code to be put in bad_problem.xul is this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>
<window
  id="example-window"
  xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

<script>

function theTest()
{
 document.getElementById('ProblematicElement').innerHTML="Hello World!";
}

</script>

  <spacer style="height: 15px"/>

  <hbox>
    <button label="Crash now!" onclick="theTest()"/>
  </hbox>
  
  <spacer style="height: 15px"/>

  <vbox flex="1">
  <html:div id="ProblematicElement">
  Hello, World
  </html:div>
  </vbox>

</window>





Actual Results:  Mozilla does not crash but this exception appear in JavaScript 
Console:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMNSHTMLElement.innerHTML]"  
nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" ...]

Expected Results:  That the HTML of the div changes!

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Hardly a blocker...

-> DOM HTML

Not that I'm really sure what the symantics of .innerHTML in a non-html document
should be...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133827 ***