[Bug 23694] New: Should element.getElementById() consider the element itself when searching

[email protected] Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:27:05 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.dom.general
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23694

            Bug ID: 23694
           Summary: Should element.getElementById() consider the element
                    itself when searching
           Product: WebAppsWG
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DOM
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]
        QA Contact: [email protected]
                CC: [email protected], [email protected]

It is odd if getElementById can't be used reliably in a disconnected
subtree to find element by id.

Based on testing querySelector seems to have similar oddity, but
we don't need to copy its behavior here, IMO.

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