318947 - createElement does not create elements with the SVG namespace, so they are not viewable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 354318

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Richard Cunningham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051203 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051203 Firefox/1.6a1

the createElement() function of the Javascript DOM does not work with SVG documents unless you specify the SVG namespace explicitly by using the createElementNS() function.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.richardcunningham.co.uk/bugs/firefox-svg-createElement.svg


Actual Results:  
Some red text is shown and no green text

Expected Results:  
both red and green texts.

The following page demonstrates a version with the createElementNS() function http://www.richardcunningham.co.uk/bugs/firefox-svg-createElement-NSfix.svg

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Marking invalid. Please see the following documents:

http://jwatt.org/svg/authoring/#namespace-aware-methods
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Namespaces_Crash_Course

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 346999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***