850804 - setting innerHTML doesn't remove all checkboxes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Gilles Levreau]

Attachment: An alert shows the last checkbox is still present after setting innerHTML to blank.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

A form contains a div containing input checkboxes. The div has its content removed by setting its innerHTML property to an empty string.


Actual results:

The last checkbox is not removed from the div.


Expected results:

All the checkboxes should be removed from the div.

Please note that this seems to happen only when a reference to the form is retrieved with document.getElementById() before setting innerHTML.

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

For me all Checkboxes are being removed running Attachment 724555 [details] and testing:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 ID:20130307074601 CSet: 8f1bec301236 (i.e. ESR)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 ID:20130307023931 CSet: 6ffe3e9da8a8 (i.e. current Release)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130314 Firefox/22.0 ID:20130314030914 CSet: b672877ed046 (i.e. Trunk)

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

form.a: [object NodeList], length: 1, 1rst element: 3

confirming with Firefox trunk on win7

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There's good chance this is a duplicate of the "resolve hooks are broken" thing and that bug 841442 will fix this.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by bug 841442.