Closed Bug 179709 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

obj.lastChild returns undefined ID

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 26179

People

(Reporter: matiasnu, Assigned: jst)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When using lastChild on a table row to get the last td in the row,
mozilla/chimera/netscape on Mac and PC returns Undefined (if I try to get the ID
of the table cell).

Explorer 5.2 Mac OS X, and Explorer 5.0 PC returns the ID as they are supposed
to do.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load the url http://homepage.mac.com/matias/lastchildbug.html
2.Click on the table
3.The alert should return "B" and not undefined.

Actual Results:  
The alert returned undefined

Expected Results:  
It should have returned the Id of the last td.
Nice testcase! Browser, not engine ---> DOM Level 0.
Confirming reported behavior with Mozilla trunk 20021107xx on WinNT.

<html><head><script>

function getLastChild(object)
{
  var lc = object.lastChild;
  alert('the element you clicked was: ' + object.id + 
        ' and the last child of this element is: ' + lc + ' (should be B)'); 
}

</script><body><table border="1">

<tr id="TableRow" onClick="getLastChild(this);">
  <td id="A">A</td>
  <td id="B">B</td>
</tr>

</table></body></html>


In Mozilla's Tools > Web Development > JavaScript Debugger,
we see that |lc| is an object of type Text, containing "\n",
and that |lc.previousSibling| is the table cell element "B".

The reason 'undefined' pops up is just because the [object Text]
element wasn't given an HTML id. The real issue is, should |lc|
evaluate to this text node, or to the table cell element "B"?
Assignee: rogerl → jst
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: JavaScript Engine → DOM Level 0
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: pschwartau → desale
It should evaluate to the text node.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26179 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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