272276 - Usemap cannot refer to <map> which has id but no name.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[sgroot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

According to the XHTML1.1 specification:
On the a and map elements, the name attribute has been removed in favor of the
id attribute (as defined in [XHTMLMOD]).
However, if a <map> element is present in the document with only an id attribute
(no name attribute), it cannot be referred to by the usemap attribute.

This means it is currently not possible to create XHTML1.1 compliant pages with
a <map> in them that work on Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a page that has a <map> with no name attribute.
(I am currently unable to provide an example page demonstrating the problem,
sorry for that)
Actual Results:  
The image did not use the map specified by the usemap element.

Expected Results:  
The image should have found the map by its id attribute and used it.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This only works if you serve the page as application/xhtml+xml.  If you are
serving the page as text/html, it is parsed as HTML so the HTML rules apply --
meaning you need 'name'.