It's absolutely a bug - just because browsers are stupid doesn't mean that users should stop using reasonable names for their input elements.
--John On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ricardo Tomasi <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's not recommended to use reserved words as 'name', as they will > override the properties of the form object - so is this actually a > bug? > > On Jan 9, 2:49 pm, Eridius <[email protected]> wrote: >> Right now i am not able to post anything up to the internet but here is a >> simple example. it seems to be a more localized issues than what i >> previously thought. >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> >> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> >> <head> >> <!-- this is the 1.2.6 version --> >> <script type="text/javascript" src="./jquery.js"></script> >> <title>name="id" bug</title> >> </head> >> <body> >> <form id="test_form" action="./index.html"> >> <div> >> <input type="hidden" name="id" /> >> </div> >> # test_link >> # test_link2 >> </form> >> <div id="selector1">test</div> >> <div id="selector2">test</div> >> >> <script type="text/javascript"> >> $(document).ready(function() >> { >> alert($('[id^=selector]').length); >> }); >> </script> >> </body> >> </html> >> >> Now in firefox when i run this, firebug tells me there was a javascript >> error(but firebug does not show it directly for whatever reason) so in the >> firebug console when i try to run alert($('[id^=selector]').length); i get >> the following error: TypeError: z.indexOf is not a function source. This >> error however only shows up if there is a form element(or probably any >> element) with a name attribute that has a value of id. If there is anything >> else you need to reproduce this bug, just let me know. >> >> Also tickethttp://dev.jquery.com/ticket/2990seems to be what i am >> experiencing but there has been no activity on that ticket for some time >> now. >> >> >> >> John Resig wrote: >> >> > Can you provide an example? Kind of hard to determine what the problem >> > is from your description. >> >> > --John >> >> > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Eridius <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Supposedly this issues was already fixed however with version 1.2.6, if i >> >> have a form element with the name of id, none of my jquery code executes. >> >> I >> >> have tested this in FF3, IE 6/7, Safari and and fails in all browsers. >> >> Is >> >> this issue known that it still exists? >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: >> >>http://www.nabble.com/name%3D%22id%27-bug-tp21374362s27240p21374362.html >> >> Sent from the jQuery Dev List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> -- >> View this message in >> context:http://www.nabble.com/name%3D%22id%27-bug-tp21374362s27240p21375967.html >> Sent from the jQuery Dev List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
