694530 - location.href doesnt work when base target is set

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rüdiger Cordes]

Attachment: Working and non working example

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1.3 Safari/533.19.4

Steps to reproduce:

My page I am working on has a navigation with 7 menues and about hundred menue items in them in total. With onclick a menue of the seven is displayed and remains so. That is what I want and ok. In the navigation is a 8th item: a simple link. This link first shall close opened menues and after that call the wanted page in the main frame (iframe). So I didnt use a simple HTML link but a javascript function to do it.


Actual results:

The javascript function didnt work.


Expected results:

The function should have closed open menues and than open the given page in the main frame.

I isolated the problem and found that Firefox's Javascript has a problem with base target=x. My function worked when base target is not set and didnt when it is set. In Safari 4 it works without a problem. Please see attached file.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

What is your version of Firefox?

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

add "top"

javascript:top.link()

Comment 3

[Rüdiger Cordes]

My version is Firefox 3.6/MacOS X 10.4.11/PPC and my girlfriends is Firefox 4.0.1/MacOS X 10.7.2/Intel.

.top changes nothing.

Comment 4

[Rüdiger Cordes]

Attachment: working and non working example 2

These two examples shows that this problem is not only with location.href.

Comment 5

[Rüdiger Cordes]

This behaviour is the same in Firefox 5, 6 and 7.

Comment 6

[Rüdiger Cordes]

My try to cange the target, make the location.href and change back the target was not successfull because JavaScript in Firefox cannot change the target itself. Safari 4 can.

See attachment 3 [details] [diff] [review].

Comment 7

[Rüdiger Cordes]

Attachment: working and non working example 3

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The behavior is correct.  <base target> means the javascript: URI runs in the window indicated by that target attribute.  That's the subframe, in this case, and in that window there is no function called "link".