341943 - Setting element properties in different functions called from request handler

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Rusty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

The source at that URL should give a good example.  Basically I am getting an element using getElementById in two different places.  This normally works, but if I get it inside a XmlHttpRequest handler, do something to it, then call another function that gets the same element using getElementById and tries to do something to it, the second change doesn't work...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a XmlHttpRequest

Inside the request handler:
2. Get an element using getElementById.
3. Set a property of that element (innerHTML in this example)
4. Call another function

Inside the other function:
5. Get the exact same element using getElementById
6. Edit a (different) property on that element

Actual Results:  
The second property change doesn't work.

Expected Results:  
The property change should work.

There is a test case here:
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~gicode/projects/firefox/test.htm

If you click on "CLICK HERE" another "CLICK HERE" should appear below it.

If you download it and try it on your machine you can uncomment line 34 and comment line 35.  This will bypass the function call and show how it should work.

Comment 1

[Rusty]

Attachment: Test Case

Comment 2

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Reporter's demo works fine in Firefox now :)