Closed
Bug 269420
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
JavaScript api document.getElementById() does not work
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 174617
People
(Reporter: Giora.Katz-Lichtenstein, Assigned: bugzilla)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040818 Firefox/0.9.3ms0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040818 Firefox/0.9.3ms0
When Firefox encounters the JavaScript API call: document.getElementById() it
returns a null for valid elements.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the HTML code below to a file on the file system.
2. Click on the menu options File -->Open File and select the above file
3. The reference to the hidden field should be valid yet it returns a null
Please note that the html below works fine under IE.
<html>
<body>
<form action="bla" />
<input type="hidden" name="control" value="false">
<script Language="JavaScript">
var element = document.getElementById('control');
alert('found the element: ' + element);
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Actual Results:
found the element: null
Expected Results:
Under Internet Explorer the results are: found the elment: [object]
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Comment 1•21 years ago
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It doesnt work because the element has no id. That is what
document.getElementById is for. The fact that name is enough for IE shows that
its an IE bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(In reply to comment #1)
> It doesnt work because the element has no id. That is what
> document.getElementById is for. The fact that name is enough for IE shows
that
> its an IE bug.
Hi.
You are right on the technical side yet wrong from a business perspective.
I ran the same code with id instead of name and it works fine.
Yet there are countless sites using the getElementById() passing in the name
as a parameter. Furterhmore, jakarta Struts does not generate an id tag for
html controls. I think the correct approach is allowing the getElementById to
take name.
Giora
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
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Comment 3•21 years ago
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This is actually a duplicate, so whatever you do, dont reopen it. Comment in the
other bug, but I doubt this will be considered, since its invalid.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174617 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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