- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 01:40:50 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Martijn <martijn.martijn@gmail.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>, roger@456bereastreet.com, public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Martijn wrote:
>
> 2007/5/1, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>:
> > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-img>
> > If the alt attribute is omitted, user agents must treat the element
> > as if it had an alt attribute set to the empty string."
>
> It seems that in that case, this should return true:
> <img>
> <script>
> alert(document.images[0].hasAttribute('alt'));
> </script>
>
> Am I correct? (not sure if that's a good idea, though)
The terminology section says:
# When it is stated that some element or attribute is ignored, or treated
# as some other value, or handled as if it was something else, this refers
# only to the processing of the node after it is in the DOM. A user agent
# must not mutate the DOM in such situations.
HTH,
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Received on Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:41:03 UTC