174617 - Name attribute not recognized by getElementById() method

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Benjamin Lupu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Trying to get a reference with getElementById() method to an HTML form control 
which doesn't an id attribute fails.

Name attribute is not recognized by getElementById() method in Mozilla (it is in
IE browsers).

Note that id can't be used instead of name to create key/value pairs when
submitting the form.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a form with a text input with only a name attribute
2. Try to get its value with getElementById() method

Actual Results:  
Mozilla JavaScript Console gives you :
Error: myText has no properties
Source File: http://1ppl.free.fr/mozilla/mozilla01/
Line: 9

To Mozilla, control is not "named" until you add an id attribute to it.

Expected Results:  
Should launch an alert with the text input value.

Please find an HTML test case at the following url : 
http://1ppl.free.fr/mozilla/mozilla01/

Comment 1

[Benjamin Lupu]

Attachment: HTML Test Case

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

IE is broken, getElementById() does exactly what the name says, anything else is
just wrong. WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Lupu]

Ok - Another browser wars thing to live with... It's just a useful feature even
it's not part of the "standard".

Thx.

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Verified.  If you want names, use document.getElementsByNames() which is part of
the DOM HTML spec.

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-71555259

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 269420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 306784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[mozilla]

many people have both name and id on the same element