6036 2008-09-07 14:32:27 +0000 HTMLCollection.namedItem() should look for non-HTML elements 2010-10-04 13:57:10 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 zcorpan ian annevk mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 21814 0 zcorpan 2008-09-07 14:32:27 +0000 The spec says about HTMLCollection.namedItem(): "It is an HTML element of any kind with an id attribute equal to key. (Non-HTML elements, even if they have IDs, are not searched for the purposes of namedItem().)" I think this should be changed to look for non-HTML elements too. It already does in Opera and Firefox (not WebKit). There's a .children attribute on Element that returns HTMLCollection and I think it would be silly if namedItem only worked for HTML elements. 21815 1 annevk 2008-09-07 22:13:41 +0000 Should it still look just at id attributes in that case though? Or ID attributes? 21819 2 zcorpan 2008-09-08 11:44:46 +0000 I don't really care either way. (Or well, I'd *like* XML ID 5 that makes all 'id' attributes of type ID.) Firefox looks at 'id' attributes on any element. Opera looks at 'id' attributes on HTML and SVG elements.