Nathan,
good collection of informations about native DOM API. It would be
great to have some site work as a repository for all these known bugs.
There are more bugs in getElementById and getElementsByTagName (on IE
normally). There are so many bugs that I can hardly remember them all.
Known problems with id/name and "getElementById / getElementsByName":
- id/name conflicts, as you explained, but with more repercussions
the worst problem being with forms elements but not only there
- an element with id="length" will shadow all DOM length properties
<div id="length"></div> document.getElementsByTagName('div').length; // boom
- any leaked global variable is a potential clash with element having
id with the same name
<div id="max"></div> max = document.getElementById('max'); // boom
Known problems with "getElementsByTagName":
- universal selector "*" not supported on IE < 9, returns text nodes
- wrong results with universal selector when context is an <object> element
<object ... ><param name="loop" value="y"><param name="movie"
src="a.swf"></object>
object.getElementsByTagName('*') // 0 elements found
using object.childNodes can help with this in some circumstance
- html5 elements are not recognized properly, needs html5 shim
document.getElementsByTagName("abbr") will return two items
for each element found, one being <abbr> and the other being </abbr>
closing tag is being interpreted as a different element
In conclusion, if you can, avoid using IE < 9 ;-)
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