277302 - the nodeName of an element is uppercased

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Maros Ivanco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041231
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041231

The property nodeName of element contains name of the element in uppercase. It
should preserve the case of the element's name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load the attached test case
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla alerts 'INPUT' and 'DIV'.

Expected Results:  
It should alert 'input' and 'div'.

Comment 1

[Maros Ivanco]

Attachment: Element's nodeName bug test case

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

quoting http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-104682815 :
"The HTML DOM returns the tagName of an HTML element in the canonical uppercase
form, regardless of the case in the source HTML document."

since the file here is a text/html file, it is treated as HTML, and thus this
sentence applies. this bug is invalid.

See also http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_11, especially point 1 there.