- From: Brad Pettit <bradp@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:39:48 -0800
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>, <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
The DOM TS is at odds with recent changes to the the HTML DOM. Specifically, I'm referring to HTMLTableElement::insertRow and how it behaves with a rowIndex of -1. The recent change to the spec was that rows are numbered in logical order (THEAD* TBODY+ TFOOT*) instead of document/DTD order (THEAD* TFOOT* TBODY+) to conform with existing implementations. insertRow(-1) is supposed to append a row to the table: "If index is -1 or equal to the number of rows, the new row is appended" <http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20021108/html.html#ID-39872903> The test case at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2001/DOM-Test-Suite/tests/level2/html/HTMLTableElement39.xml doesn't take this change into account. From the description of insertRow(-1) -- as well as the previous behavior -- I surmise that the intent was to append a row to the last TBODY, not to the TFOOT. However, because the rows in a table are numbered with TFOOT rows at the end, it's not clear to which section insertRow should append: The last existing section? The TFOOT? The TBODY? Our tests with Netscape 7 indicate that it doesn't support -1 as a parameter to insertRow. My questions: what is the correct behavior, and should the spec be updated? Brad Pettit Microsoft Corp.
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