192850 - CSSStyleDeclaration not added to created XHTML elements

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

2003020508:

When you create an element through the DOM using document.createElement, it has
no style for setProperty, etc.

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Attachment: XML testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You're not creating an XHTML element.  You're creating an element in the null
namespace.

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Yep, that was it. I'd hug you if you were right here! I spent hours trying to
figure out what was wrong, before :-(

var newSpanNode = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml","span");