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Bug 405890
Opened 17 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
When getting a DOM element's href property, and when the href contains a space, the space is URLencoded as %20
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)
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UNCONFIRMED
People
(Reporter: bigfun, Unassigned)
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(Whiteboard: DUPEME)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1 This may sound like a trivial and even defensible bug, but it leads to incompatibilities when running some DHTML applications. If a space is represented as a space on some browsers and as %20 in others, then string comparisons can fail in places where they wouldn't. In this code snippet: if (these2children[k].href.indexOf(": addfield")>0) { these2children[k].href="javascript: addfield('addfield-" + OurNewNumber + "')"; these2children[k].id="id" + "addfield-" + OurNewNumber; } fails to work correctly in Firefox 3.0b1 because the space is now %20. The same code works correctly on older versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer 6 and 7. (I haven't tried in Opera.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create an href containing a space, such as <a id="id1" href="javascript: addfield(6)"> 2. read the href in javascript 3. href is returned with "%20" instead of " " Actual Results: 20 Expected Results: [space]
Comment 1•17 years ago
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My first search didn't find a bug that this is a direct duplicate of, but in spirit it's a duplicate of all the bugs talking about things like being surprised to get back an absolute URI when the href attribute had a relative URI - the DOM spec says .href is a URI, not the string you put in, and if you want the string you put in, you should .getAttribute("href") instead.
Component: General → DOM
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → general
Updated•14 years ago
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Whiteboard: DUPEME
Comment 2•6 years ago
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046 Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5. If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.
Priority: -- → P5
Assignee | ||
Updated•5 years ago
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Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: minor → S4
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