219901 - order of form elements in the html dom and form.elements[]array

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204784

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

Description

[Hungerburg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 Firebird/0.6.1+

with javascript/dom functions designers can reorder form elements in a loaded
document. some applications may be interested in the result of the users
interaction with the page, for them it was essential, that the form.elements[]
array was in sync with the order of the elements in the dom.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load linked page
2. move an element down or up
3. click "alert" or "save" button

Actual Results:  
I guess, insertBefore first removes the element, then adds a new one. this
element is always last in the array, without respect to the order in the dom.

Expected Results:  
the element should have the same place in the elements array as in the dom.

the spex may be silent about this, so it may be an enhancement (though opera and
ie do show the "expected" results above.)

this bug is most likely a duplicate of both
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203886
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204784

regards,

peter

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204784 ***