177552 - Setting image.src via Javascript doesn't reload image

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176926

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

Description

[shakahshakah]

In Build ID 2002102704, setting image.src via Javascript doesn't reload the
image. Works in previous versions of Mozilla (don't know exactly when it broke,
but it seems like sometime in October) and in IE.

Will attach sample HTML file that demonstrates the problem, but in a nutshell
the assignment in the following Javascript block has no effect:

  <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
  <!--
    function doImageSwitch() {
      alert(document.getElementById("the_image").src) ;
      document.getElementById("the_image").src =
"http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicprogramming.gif" ;
      alert(document.getElementById("the_image").src) ;
    }
  //-->

Comment 1

[shakahshakah]

Attachment: simple page that uses Javscript to change the src attribute of an image

The calls to alert() demonstrate that the .src attribute is not being set by
the assignment.

Comment 2

[Sivakiran Tummala]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176926 ***