13912 2011-08-26 00:36:29 +0000 What order are attributes in? 2014-02-13 11:39:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG DOM unspecified PC All RESOLVED DUPLICATE 17871 P2 normal --- 1 ian annevk ayg ian mike Ms2ger shadow2531 www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55835 0 ian 2011-08-26 00:36:29 +0000 This doesn't define the order of the array: "The attributes attribute must return a read only array of the context object's associated attributes." 55853 1 Ms2ger 2011-08-26 12:39:47 +0000 The order in which they were added to the element. In particular, setAttribute/setAttributeNS say "*Append* this attribute to the context object's attributes." I've tried to make this cleared by using "list of attributes" instead of "collection of attributes": <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/rev/f1ac828a0830>. I've filed bug 13917 to fix the "create an element for a token" definition in HTML, which doesn't define in what the order the attributes are added. 96801 2 ian 2013-11-25 18:53:38 +0000 Bug 13917 was WONTFIXed. Attributes in markup are conceptually unordered. If the API exposes an order, it's the API that should define the order, IMHO. 96826 3 annevk 2013-11-26 13:05:59 +0000 So if we have multiple disparate APIs they can all do their own thing? I think either we have a consistent order, we have a random order, or we have it implementation-defined and hope nobody starts depending on anything. I vastly prefer consistent order over the alternatives. 100503 4 annevk 2014-02-13 11:38:09 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17871 ***