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Bug 23356 - Consider making HTMLFieldSetElement.elements a plain HTMLCollection
Summary: Consider making HTMLFieldSetElement.elements a plain HTMLCollection
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-09-25 20:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-11-19 22:19 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-09-25 20:46:36 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-fieldset-elements
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-fieldset-elements
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Consider making HTMLFieldSetElement.elements a plain HTMLCollection

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Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-25 20:55:22 UTC 
The only difference between the spec and this would be dropping support for setting radio button groups from the fieldset elements list using fieldset.elements.foo.value, right? You'd have to instead do fieldset.form.elements.foo.value, and it would only work if you had a form and the fieldset was all in the form and so on?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-09-26 18:19:24 UTC 
Based on IRC conversation, I think the answer to comment 2 is "yes".
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-13 21:08:13 UTC 
Not sure what that logbot link is supposed to show.

The live dom viewer tests shows Safari/Chrome use HTMLFormControlsCollection, IE doesn't even have .elements, and Firefox does HTMLCollection.

I don't see why we wouldn't want to do the radio button thing in fieldsets.

Based on the above, I'm leaning towards WONTFIX. Is there any further information I should consider?
Comment 5 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-19 22:19:19 UTC 
Marking WONTFIX per comment 4; please reopen if you disagree.