Closed Bug 269408 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

second access to global JS variable fails

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114461

People

(Reporter: chkr, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926 Galeon/1.3.18
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

I get an Error in the JavaScript console with this simple JavaScript code. The
second 'document.write(...);' is the offending line. 

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        <!--
            var arr = new Array('a','b');
            function PageInit() {
                document.write("arr is " + arr + "<br>");
                document.write("arr is " + arr + "<br>");
            }
        //-->
        </script>
    </head>
    <body onLoad="PageInit()">Body</body>
</html>

It is a very strange effect, because only the second access to the arr variable
fails. The error does not occur with local variables.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
View the supplied html file in the browser and have a look at the JavaScript
console.
Actual Results:  
Error:       arr is not defined
Source File: file:///tmp/sample.html
Line:        8

Expected Results:  
the content of the variable arr should be output twice


The same piece of javascript is interpreted well in the konqueror's javascript
engine.
Assignee: general → general
Component: JavaScript Engine → DOM: Level 0
QA Contact: pschwartau → ian

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114461 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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