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Bug 11963 - The namedItem(key) method must return the first node in the collection that matches the following requirements: •It is an a, applet, area, embed, form, frame, frameset, iframe, img, or object element with a name attribute equal to key, or, •It is an e
Summary: The namedItem(key) method must return the first node in the collection that m...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-02-02 15:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-02-02 15:52:42 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top

Comment:
The namedItem(key) method must return the first node in the collection that
matches the following requirements:
•It is an a, applet, area, embed, form, frame, frameset, iframe, img, or
object element with a name attribute equal to key, or,
•It is an element with an ID equal to key.

This could be a potential problem. All elements can have an ID attribute. What
if you have an element with an ID attribute with the value "foo" which is part
of a collection and you have another element (from the list of applicable
elements) that has a name attribute with a value "foo" which is also a member
of the same collection. Which element is returned? Or is an array or another
collection of elements returned that contains all elements that have a name
attribute with the value "foo" and the element with the attribute ID with the
value "foo"?

Posted from: 71.224.184.28
Comment 1 Craig S 2011-02-02 16:00:59 UTC 
The specification clearly says "return the first node in the collection that mathches the following requirements".
Comment 2 Boris Zbarsky 2011-02-02 16:34:22 UTC 
Though the spec should make it clear that the node returned matches _either_ of the following requirements.  The "or" is really hard to notice; the up-front either would work better.
Comment 3 Simon Pieters 2011-02-03 09:29:47 UTC 
Reopening on behalf of bz
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-03-03 23:56:06 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I've fixed comment 2, but I don't understand comment 1.
Comment 5 contributor 2011-03-03 23:56:27 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5930.
Check-in comment: clarify that this is an 'or' list.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5929&to=5930
Comment 6 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:45 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1