253451 - document.all should find elements with given name as well as id

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256640

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

Description

[Steve Chapel]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mortgagetrust.co.uk/
2. Click on "Manage your Accounts" button on top menu

Expected Results:
The "Login id" field should have the keyboard focus.

Actual Results:
The "Login id" field does not have keyboard focus.

IE and Opera both work as expected because document.all(foo) finds elements that
have the name foo as well as the id foo. In this web page, the line:
    document.all.N6T1.focus();
causes the element:
    <input type="text" name="N6T1" class=bodytextnormal autocomplete=off ...>
to get keyboard focus for this reason.

This enhancement should help the new document.all feature work on more web
pages, as documented in bug 252673 and bug 219325.

Note that the message in the JavaScript console "Non-standard document.all
property was used. Use W3C standard document.getElementById() instead." is going
to be misleading in this case, because changing document.all to
document.getElementById will not work. There should be an additional explanation
that the name needs to be changed to an id in this case.

Comment 1

[Steve Chapel]

Attachment: Simplfied testcase

Comment 2

[Steve Chapel]

This seems like it was fixed by the fix for bug 256932.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This was fixed by bug 256640. Duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256640 ***