346999 - SVG element added via Javascript to the SVG DOM is not rendered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318947

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[d.m.hoffer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5

When you add a SVG element using JS to an existing SVG DOM, the new element is added to the DOM (DOM inspector), but the element is not rendered.
The DOM Inspector cannot provide a Namespace URI for the new element but for each old element indicating that the rendering engine does not know what to do with element.
In the given example the rectangle schould be replaced with a circle by clicking on the text. This works fine in Opera and IE+Adobe SVG viewer.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a SVG element to a existing SVG DOM using JS
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Actual Results:  
element is added to DOM but not displayed in the browser

Expected Results:  
element should be displayed

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

It works if you use createElementNS instead of createElement.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 318947 ***