824116 - Make index of table.insertRow optional

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Ma Hsiao-Chun]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:

Check the state of table.insertRow


Actual results:

MDN says index is required:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/table.insertRow
And Firefox 17 does require it.


Expected results:

HTML5 standard says index is optional:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html
And it is optional in Chrome and IE.

Comment 1

[:Ms2ger (⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Spec: <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#htmltableelement>.

It's probably easiest to wait until we move HTMLTableElement to WebIDL; Peter, do you have an idea about the timeframe for that?

Comment 2

[:Ms2ger (⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Also HTMLTableSectionElement.insertRow, HTMLTableRowElement.insertCell. All default to -1.

Comment 3

[Florian Scholz [:fscholz] (MDN)]

Mentioned on:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/20#DOM

Updated:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/table.insertRow
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/tableRow.insertCell