Thanks! I should have tested that... silly IE8!! Why would they do something like that? sight...
2009/5/27 Fábio Costa <[email protected]> > 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 >> > >
