[Bug 17047] New: Add id attribute to HTMLElement IDL

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17047

           Summary: Add id attribute to HTMLElement IDL
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: tj@crowdersoftware.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


The `id` attribute should be added to the IDL for `HTMLElement`; it doesn't
seem to be there in the latest editor's[1] or working[2] drafts.

AFAIK, this has been a reflected property for as long as there have been specs
for HTMLElement, certainly since 1999[3]. I believe the current
Recommendation-level spec for it is DOM2 HTML[4].

A huge number of sites would fail in a browser that didn't reflect this
attribute.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/elements.html#htmlelement
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#htmlelement
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/CR-DOM-Level-2-19991210/cover.html#contents
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-63534901

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Received on Monday, 14 May 2012 15:22:11 UTC