31560 - DOM sibling node navigation

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Keith Bowes]

Navigating through the DOM node structure with the "nextSibling" 
and "previousSibling" properties doesn't work.  I've tested this with the M14 
release, as well as the 2000-03-11-08 nightly build, on Windows 98.

Here's sample HTML source that demonstrates the bug:
<div onclick="this.nextSibling.style.color='red';">Click me to make my sibling 
red</div>
<div onclick="this.previousSibling.style.color='green';">Click me to make my 
sibling green</div>

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any "live" on-line samples that exposes the bug.

Comment 1

[Keith Bowes]

Attachment: demo of the bug

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

{next,previous}Sibling does indeed work here (there might be bugs of course),
the problem in the testcase is that the nextSibling of the first div is the
text between the two divs (ie the newline) and the previous sibling of the
second div is the same text node. Removing the whitespace between the two
divs makes the testcase work. Marking invalid.

Comment 3

[Jan Carpenter]

Mass update of qa contact

Comment 4

[Jan Carpenter]

verified