I've recently seen this aswell, I don't know why it's in but I guess it's to
support IE6 or something.
I simply created the element and then used writeAttribute('name', myname');
to add the name attribute.
Although I am curious why this is.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dave Kibble <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just spent more time than I should discovering a (possible) bug in
> prototype's new Element and could not find it in a web search so
> thought I'd log it here.
>
> I have an object that stores the type of a pop-up (simplified):
>
> this.attributes = {name: 'value', type: 'text'};
>
> then uses the object to create a new element of the correct type:
>
> new Element('input', this.attributes);
>
> in IE7 (not Firefox) the name parameter is deleted so next time I call
>
> new Element('input', this.attributes);
>
> the input element does not have a name property.
>
>
> I fixed it with a rather big kludge in the call to make a copy of the
> attributes:
>
> new Element('input', $H(op.attributes).clone().toObject());
>
> The problem seems to be in prototype.js global.Element where the code says
>
> if (HAS_EXTENDED_CREATE_ELEMENT_SYNTAX && attributes.name) {
> tagName = '<' + tagName + ' name="' + attributes.name + '">';
> delete attributes.name;
> ...
>
>
> Hope this helps someone (or maybe someone else can suggest a better fix!).
>
> cheers
> Dave
>
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