300098 - Javascript difference between Firefox and IE

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Chris Hollingworth]

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

I use the following HTML to create a form element with two additional attributes
ie Slot and BookingID **Note these are not standard elements of the object**

<input type="hidden"  size="3" Slot="AM" BookingID="43"  name="hdn_182_AM"
value="123" >

I then access the attributes in JS useing code

Slot =  f.elements['hdn_182_AM'].Slot;
BookingID = f.elements['hdn_182_AM'].BookingID;
value = f.elements['hdn_182_AM'].value;

Under IE ,Slot = "AM" , BookingID = "43" and value = "123"

Under FireFox Slot = "Undefined" , BookingID = "Undefined" and value = "123"


Should FireFox recoginise the 'adhoc' attributes and handle this code in the
same way that IE does?

regards




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

IE exposes attributes in a tag as properties of the corresponding DOM object
however Mozilla Firefox does not. To do this cross browser, use the methods
getAttribute/setAttribute. 

Not js engine.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

wontfix, preempting wontfix.