Closed Bug 299108 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Count of inner layers (childNodes) using JavaScript incorrect in well formatted code

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26179

People

(Reporter: jblazer, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Please use this code to reproduce error:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Untitled</title>
	<script language="JavaScript">
	<!--
	
		function countLayers() {
			alert("Number of layers = " +
document.getElementById('maindiv').childNodes.length);
		}
	
	// -->
	</script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="maindiv">
	<div id="subdiv1">Some content</div>
	<div id="subdiv2">Some content</div>
	<div id="subdiv3">Some content</div>
	<div id="subdiv4">Some content</div>
	<div id="subdiv5">Some content</div>			
</div>

<input type="button" name="countlayer" value="Count Layers"
onClick="countLayers();">

</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste code in new .htm page
2. Open code in browser
3. Press button

Actual Results:  
Alertbox stating 11 layers are present

Expected Results:  
Alertbox stating 5 layers are present (see MS IE)

Bij sticking all the code together, it will work correctly, but becomes unreadable.
Please see:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/technote/whitespace/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26179 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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