Email conversation
| From | Stan Kaczmarczyk |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | document.anchors collection in firefox |
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| Date | 23 February 2005 21:43 |
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Hi I was just wandering if you by any chance have come across this
potential bug ... Whever i try to access the document.anchors.length
property and find out how many
anchors are present in the doc i get 0 (eventhough there are quite a
few) ... the a tags i'm looking for are created through dom ... the
weird thing is it worx flawlessly in explorer ... firefox always returns
0... (even if there are tags that were created in normal html) ... any
thoughts ?
thanx for any suggestions
Stan Kaczmarczyk
| From | Me |
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| To | Stan Kaczmarczyk |
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| Subject | Re: document.anchors collection in firefox |
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| Date | 26 February 2005 11:47 |
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Stan,
Never seen this sort of bug in Firefox. In the tests I just did now, they
all got it correct if I used HTML, and if I used DOM, Firefox, Opera,
Safari, Konqueror, etc got it correct, and IE (5.5) said 0.
<body>
<script>
x=document.createElement('a');
x.setAttribute('name','foo1')
document.body.appendChild(x);
x=document.createElement('a');
x.setAttribute('name','foo2')
document.body.appendChild(x);
alert(document.anchors.length)
</script>
What do other standards compliant browsers (like Opera) say?
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Stan Kaczmarczyk |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | document.anchors collection in firefox |
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| Date | 7 March 2005 16:33 |
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Thanx for your reply , Mark ... Unfourtunately I didn't have any time to
test out my script in anything else than explorer and fire fox ... I
ended up using documents.links collection.. I suspect that the anchors
collection (in firefox at least) refers to anchors on the same page ,
not all a elts... Once again I had no time to confirm that ..i'll c if
I can play around with it this weekend and let you know what happens ...
Stan Kaczmarczyk