164044 - Stylesheet can not be referenced by Id

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Gorbushin Yaroslav]

if document contains link to stylesheet, ex.:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="gdhome4.css" title="Modern Style"
id="modern">
it can't be referenced by document.getElementById(...) function. Maybe bug. :)

Comment 1

[Tim]

Attachment: Test case

According to this test case, what you described works fine for me (linux,
athlon, debug trunk build from Tue Aug 20 15:46:05 EDT 2002). If you still have
problems, list the URL where your problem appears.

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

WFM win98 2002081419

Comment 3

[Gorbushin Yaroslav]

Attachment: Featurism

Please see this attachment source. Its contains many interesting things.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So there are two possible issues here:

1)  document.styleSheets[0] is null when there was no actual sheet loaded.  This   
    is arguably a bug and I'm pretty sure it's already filed.
2)  document.styleSheets["modern"] is null.  this is not a bug;
    document.styleSheets is defined to basically be an array of stylesheets; it
    does not have any other properties on it.

Does that about sum up the issue?

Comment 5

[Gorbushin Yaroslav]

No, there is no issue for me. I'm only want Mozilla have associative array for
document.styleSheets? This will make Mozilla more IE compatible. I'm not an IE
fanatic, but the array with literal index for stylesheets have to be. U can say
a 'NO!' to me and I'll never remember that thing. :^)

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To glazou to decide what we want to do here, since this is his area of expertise....

Comment 7

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

What you want, ie document.styleSheets["modern"], is really, using a standard
way of using the standard DOM, document.getElementById("modern").sheet

So this is clearly a wontfix.

Comment 8

[Gorbushin Yaroslav]

Thanx, I'll never use IE style. :)