801476 - cannot get radio by name from browser environment

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools Graveyard :: Scratchpad, defect)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121010144125

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go here: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/formex.html
2) Open scratchpad (default environment of Content)
3) Paste the following then run it:
document.forms.example.why[0].checked = true
4) You see it checks the first radio
4.5) Click on "Reset" on the html form to clear the radio selection
5) Change scratchpad environemnt to Browser
6) Change code to:
gBrowser.contentDocument.forms.example.why[0].checked = true
7) Run it and you get:

/*
Exception: gBrowser.contentDocument.forms.example is undefined
@Scratchpad:2
*/


Actual results:


/*
Exception: gBrowser.contentDocument.forms.example is undefined
@Scratchpad:2
*/


Expected results:

It should have checked the radio button.

Comment 1

[noitidart]

Sorry the error is:
Exception: gBrowser.contentDocument.forms.example.why is undefined

Comment 2

[Loic]

I'm not able to reproduce the issue in Nightly 19, so I guess it's already fixed.
Could you try too?

Comment 3

[noitidart]

Thanks Loic I'll try I don't have nightly but i'll try to get it. Does it interfere with my current stable release installation?

Comment 4

[Loic]

No, you can use the same profile with the current release and Nightly. But it's better to use different profiles. In addition, Nightly is installed in a different folder.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

You can change the target link of the Nightly shortcut in Windows as:
"C:\Program Files\Nightly\firefox.exe" -P "another_profile" -no-remote

Comment 5

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I've tried to reproduce the issue on the latest Nightly,  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0,  Build ID: 20121022030551.

I get a different exception message:

/*
Exception: gBrowser.contentDocument.forms is undefined
@Scratchpad/5:10
*/

Comment 6

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

I can't reproduce it either. Manuela, did you by any chance change the active tab before running the scratchpad?

Comment 7

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

No, I didn't change the active tab before running the scratchpad.

Comment 8

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

This works for me as well, using today's Nightly.

Comment 9

[noitidart]

Oh gosh sorry I forgot to re try this im going to try later tonight