612188 - target="_content" targets the content area, not an iframe with that name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[ratboy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: 3.6.10

An IFrame will not work if it has an underscore in the name attribute; this should be supported since other browsers do not have an issue with this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a page with a simple hyperlink pointing to an iframe with the name _content.
2.Load the page.
3.Click the link and the page will not open in the iframe.
Actual Results:  
Page opens in the browser window rather than the inline-frame.

Expected Results:  
The link should be opened in the inline-frame.

Not affected by doctypes or anything like that.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Names starting with underscore are reserved names for frames; using them in your HTML as actual frame names is invalid.  In particular, some values starting with underscore are magical (see _blank, _top, etc).  _content is one of those; it means "the browser content area".

It looks like the current HTML5 spec draft says nothing about that; I raised http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-November/029030.html

Comment 2

[ratboy]

Ah much thanks; quick response too!

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, not quite fixed.  Need to see what happens with the spec work, then align with the spec... ;)

Comment 4

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

bz, did anything ever happen with this?  It looks like nobody replied to your email.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It got replies.  But they moved their archive.... Try http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2011Dec/0188.html and replies to that.

Comment 6

[Virginia (please send need info request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi,

I'm marking this ticket as Resolved - WFM it looks like this is an outdated issue. The reporter is no longer active and we can't ask them for a test page.
Please reopen it in case this is still active.

Thanks,
Virginia

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fwiw, testcase is:

data:text/html,<a target="_content" href="http://example.com">Load example.com in iframe</a><iframe name="_content"></iframe>

Comment 8

[Virginia (please send need info request to Brindusa Tot)]

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Thank you for providing more information. I'm attaching a screenshot where I try opening wikipedia page inside the iframe and it's showing as expected. I tested this on Firefox Nightly 94.0a1 (2021-09-28) (64-bit).
In case you are still able to reproduce this on your end, please reopen this ticket and provide more info so we can continue investigating.

Regards,
Virginia