Rails spinoffs - Oct 2007 - Form selector is not cross-browser consistent with label elements

I have found that Prototype does not select the same value based on
the $F form selector.

Consider this HTML snippet:
<label for="search">Your query<input name="q"
value="" type="text"
id="search"></label>

Using $F(''search'') returns:
- ''''Your query" in Firefox 2
- "Your query" in IE 6
- "" (empty string) in Safari 2 and 3

I don''t know which browser actually does this correctly, but it would
be nice if the $F behaved consistently. Isn''t that one of the premises
with Prototype to begin with?

Btw, document.getElementById(''search'').value returns the same
value as
the $F selector.


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This tends to indicate the ''for'' attribute is doubling as id?
Odd.

On 10/23/07, Onar Vikingstad
<vikingstad-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> I have found that Prototype does not select the same value based on
> the $F form selector.
>
> Consider this HTML snippet:
> <label for="search">Your query<input name="q"
value="" type="text"
> id="search"></label>
>
> Using $F(''search'') returns:
> - ''''Your query" in Firefox 2
> - "Your query" in IE 6
> - "" (empty string) in Safari 2 and 3
>
> I don''t know which browser actually does this correctly, but it
would
> be nice if the $F behaved consistently. Isn''t that one of the
premises
> with Prototype to begin with?
>
> Btw, document.getElementById(''search'').value returns the
same value as
> the $F selector.
>
>
> >
>
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Onar,
I''m not sure which version you''re testing against, but $F
returns
"" (empty string) both in FF and IE for me (against trunk version)


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