374507 - getElementById doesn't find <area> elements

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Attachment: testcase

getElementById doesn't find <area> elements

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Looks more like "area elements that are broken and unusable by not being inside
a map element aren't added to the DOM" to me.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Attachment: xhtml testcase

<area> is found in xhtml because parser/content sink doesn't remove it.
That is at least what I guess.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Phil: That fixes it. Thanks. I guess for backwards compatibility things should stay as they are.

Smaug: yeah, I know the XML parser doesn't throw away elements like the HTML parser, but HTML is what's widely used out there so that's what I'd prefer my tests to use.

Comment 4

[Anne (:annevk)]

Note that per HTLM5 it's a bug to drop <area> currently.

Comment 5

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Note that the original test case now works, thanks to the new HTML parser.