688501 - Web Console mistakes variable name for element ID

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey Schwab]

Attachment: Trivial HTML document with which to reproduce the problem.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

In the Web Console: Let a variable refer to a DOM element whose ID matched the name of the variable, then referred to the variable by name.

> let h = document.getElementById('h');
undefined



Actual results:

Web Console mistakenly assumed that I was trying to access an element by ID, whereas I was actually accessing a variable whose name just matched the element ID.  We Console issued a spurious warning:

> h
[object HTMLHeadingElement]
Element referenced by ID/NAME in the global scope. Use W3C standard document.getElementById() instead.


Expected results:

No warning should have been issued.

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

not getting a warning anymore.