Unfortunately this a IE8 problem.
The javascript way of creating DOM elements and getting tagName:
document.createElement('image').tagName
returns 'IMG'.
:(
Fábio Miranda Costa
Engenheiro de Computação
http://meiocodigo.com
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Eneko Alonso <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm having trouble parsing some XML on IE8 (I convert it to DOM elements so
> I can use x.getElement('nodetag'), etc)
> the issue is when the xml has a tag called image. For some reason, when
> creating a new Element image on IE8, it gets converted to IMG:
>
> On IE8's js console:
> var a = new Element('image'); a.tagName;
>
> we get the output:
> >>var a = new Element('image'); a.tagName;
> "IMG"
>
> Could this be a Mootools issue on the Element class or is this a weird
> behaviour if IE when creating new image elements?
>
> Any ideas of how to work around this?
>
>
> Thanks
>
