Closed Bug 337158 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

the word 'location' in JavaScript is automatically interpreted as document.location

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131212

People

(Reporter: tvh_austin, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 In JavaScript the word 'location' is being used as a reserved word. For example: <html> <head> <script language="javaScript"> var justAString = 'This is a string'; var location = justAString.indexOf('a'); alert(location); // should show 8 </script> </head> <body> hello world </body> </html> causes the browser to load the following url: Desktop/testscripts/8 (Note the number 8, this is the result from the IndexOf() clause) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run code from above 2. 3. Actual Results: browser redirect, or the browser hangs Expected Results: JavaScript to run as expected
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131212 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Build Config → General
Product: Firefox → Firefox Build System
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