192283 - document.getElementById returns nothing on <object> tag when called before body.onload

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Ashish Bhatt]

Tested on 20030207

document.getElementById() does not return anything when called before
body.onload()  for <object> tag

Comment 1

[Ashish Bhatt]

forgot to mention it works in IE

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

slip.mcom.com not found where I'm sitting... care to attach a test case?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Assigning to reporter to attach a usable testcase...

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

From looking at the testcase, it places an object tag in the head element,
immediately followed by a script element. This is of course invalid HTML, and my
guess is that the parser holds on to the object tag until it sees the start of
the body, and then hands it to the DOM code... Does this work if you place the
object tag and the script tag in the beginning of the body tag in stead of
inside the head tag? If so, then I say this is WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[Juan José Mata]

Johnny, can you talk to Ashish and please figure out if this indeed 'wontfix'
material?  Thanks.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

WONTFIX.