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Bug 24263 - table.caption setter, "If the new value is not a caption element, then a HierarchyRequestError DOM exception must be thrown instead." not necessary
Summary: table.caption setter, "If the new value is not a caption element, then a Hier...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
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: 2014-01-09 22:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-01-14 16:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-01-09 22:31:47 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-table-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-table-element
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
table.caption setter, "If the new value is not a caption element, then a
HierarchyRequestError DOM exception must be thrown instead." not necessary

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Comment 1 Ms2ger 2014-01-09 22:32:12 UTC 
It's

           attribute HTMLTableCaptionElement? caption;

so IDL should check that
Comment 2 Ms2ger 2014-01-09 22:34:48 UTC 
Also the "if the new value is a caption element," bit I missed before
Comment 3 contributor 2014-01-14 00:05:23 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8394.
Check-in comment: Fix errors in table.caption, table.tHead, table.tFoot
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8393&to=8394