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Richard

Element 'next' method misbehaving in IE7

Reported by Richard | May 30th, 2008 @ 11:12 AM

In IE7 the 'next' element method behaves differently in IE7 than it does in Firefox. The Firefox behaviour is as I would expect it to be so I believe the problem is in IE7.

When the next method is applied to

  • elements in a
      list that inlcudes sub-lists, IE7 will return the next
    • element instead of the
        element which forms a sub list after the
      • element. While this seems logical from a lists point of view, it is not logical from the DOM point of view as the
          element should be seen as a sibling of the list element preceeding it.

          I have attached a test.html file which demonstrates this problem. The alert box reports the 'next' element's tagName and contents and the message is different in IE7 than in Firefox 2.

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    • Richard

      Richard May 30th, 2008 @ 11:14 AM

      Sorry I didn't realise my referencese to the HTML list tags would mess up the layout, this should be clearer:

      In IE7 the 'next' element method behaves differently in IE7 than it does in Firefox. The Firefox behaviour is as I would expect it to be so I believe the problem is in IE7.

      When the next method is applied to 'li' elements in a

        list that inlcudes sub-lists, IE7 will return the next 'li' element instead of the 'ul' element which forms a sub list after the 'li' element. While this seems logical from a lists point of view, it is not logical from the DOM point of view as the 'ul' element should be seen as a sibling of the list element preceeding it.

        I have attached a test.html file which demonstrates this problem. The alert box reports the 'next' element's tagName and contents and the message is different in IE7 than in Firefox 2.

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    • John-David Dalton

      John-David Dalton June 5th, 2008 @ 02:55 PM

        • → State changed from “new” to “invalid”

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