[Bug 6036] New: HTMLCollection.namedItem() should look for non-HTML elements

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6036

           Summary: HTMLCollection.namedItem() should look for non-HTML
                    elements
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Spec bugs
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: simonp@opera.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


The spec says about HTMLCollection.namedItem():

"It is an HTML element of any kind with an id attribute equal to key. (Non-HTML
elements, even if they have IDs, are not searched for the purposes of
namedItem().)"

I think this should be changed to look for non-HTML elements too. It already
does in Opera and Firefox (not WebKit). There's a .children attribute on
Element that returns HTMLCollection and I think it would be silly if namedItem
only worked for HTML elements.


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Received on Sunday, 7 September 2008 14:33:02 UTC