420366 - document.getElementById returns null for <link> elements in an SVG document

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Joel Young]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020511 Firefox/3.0b3

In an SVG document with a <link> element with an id attribute, document.getElementById fails to return the element.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the test page.

Actual Results:  
In the first alert message:

document.getElementById("foo") = null

Even though:

alert('document.getElementsByTagName("link").item(0).getAttribute("id") = foo

Expected Results:  
document.getElementById("foo") should return the <link id="foo">

Comment 1

[Joel Young]

Attachment: Test case with JS alerts

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

I don't think this is valid.

<link> is not a valid SVG element so per http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:document.getElementById#Notes its id attribute is not of type ID and is therefore not matched.

Comment 3

[Joel Young]

Ah, my mistake. I'm still learning SVG.