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Bug 20656 - document.body setter step 4: The root element can be null.
Summary: document.body setter step 4: The root element can be null.
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: 2013 Q1
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-01-13 07:33 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-12 07:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-01-13 07:33:05 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-tree-accessors
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-tree-accessors

Comment:
document.body setter step 4: The root element can be null.

Posted from: 121.102.72.108
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.52 Safari/537.17
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2013-02-14 15:57:31 UTC 
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/2100

shows that Gecko/WebKit/Trident all throw HierarchyRequestError.
Comment 2 contributor 2013-04-10 22:00:44 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7800.
Check-in comment: Match reality
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7799&to=7800