184925 - isindex.form always == null

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The form property on isindex elements is always null, even if the isindex
element is contained inside a form. This is a bug that shows up when running the
W3C DOM TS, Level 2 HTML.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Load the URL, and paste this into the URL bar:

  javascript:alert(document.getElementsByTagName('isindex')[0].form);

You'll see nothing, when you should see "[Object HTMLFormElement]".

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

.form on an isindex doesn't make sense and should be removed from the spec.

<form>s and <isindex>s never interact in any way. The <isindex> is not submitted
when a form is submitted, and the <isindex> does not take any information from a
<form> tag to decide on how or where to submit its information. See

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#isindex

Comment 3

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

100% agreed.  I am told we don't want to modify the spec, though, and we want to
be compliant with the tests for good PR.

Johnny, Peter, with the knowledge that this may get into an errata (probably
everyone agrees on it), perhaps we can simply get it removed from the *tests*?

Comment 4

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

hmmm.. that property is in DOM-HTML-L1 so i guess it's way too late to remove it
now. IMHO it should always be null though since there is no form that the
element "belongs" to.

Comment 5

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

Attachment: v1

Comment 6

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

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v1

strange as this whole thing is, r=me

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 109750 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

Nice! sr=jst

Comment 8

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

This was checked in a while ago.