Closed
Bug 262946
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Setting innerText field of Anchor object in JavaScript does not update the inner text
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 254174
People
(Reporter: kahahn, Assigned: bugzilla)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
See JavaScript html below. This html does the expected under MSIE 5.x.
That is, the "hey" text is replaced on loading with "This is good stuff":
and on clicking the link it is replaced with "This is bad stuff:". Note that
the alert lines are added to confirm the path that JavaScript took.
When I run the same html under Firefox 1.0, the alerts indicate that
the correct path was taken through the JavaScript code, but the innerText
field does not update (it continues to say "hey" all the time).
BTW the html below is based upon code found at the tutorial site:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_dom_anchor_href
The tutorial code you will find at that link has the same problem under
Firefox 1.0.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var text1;
var text2;
function initPage()
{
text1 =
"This is good stuff:";
text2 =
"This is bad stuff:";
updatePage(0);
}
function updatePage(select)
{
switch (select) {
case 0:
document.getElementById('myAnchor').innerText=text1;
alert(text1);
break;
case 1:
document.getElementById('myAnchor').innerText=text2;
alert(text2);
break;
}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body onload="initPage()">
<a name="this">
<p>Before span
<a id="myAnchor" href="#this" onclick="updatePage(1)">hey</a>
after span</p>
</body>
</html>
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the html code given in the details (or the code pointed to by the
URL given.
2. Compare how this html code behaves under Firefox and MSIE
3.
Actual Results:
See details: innerText fails to update.
Expected Results:
innerText should update the same way it does for MSIE
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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Gecko (and thus both Mozilla and Firefox) doesn't support IE's proprietary
innerText property. See
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html#dom_unsupp
DOM Level 3's textContent property is supported, though, so a cross-browser
script is easy enough to do:
var elem = document.getElementById('myAnchor');
switch (select) {
case 0:
elem.textContent ? elem.textContent=text1 : elem.innerText=text1;
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Updated•19 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254174 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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