[webkit-dev] HTMLSelectElement and namedItem()

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, David Moore wrote:
>
> I've looked at FF, IE and Opera. FF doesn't support named item access 
> from an HTMLSelectElement. It does support it from 
> HTMLOptionsCollection, and returns 1 element even if there are multiple 
> options with the same name.
> 
> IE doesn't support named item access from either HTMLSelectElement or 
> HTMLOptionsCollection.
> 
> Opera supports named item access from both HTMLSelectElements and 
> HTMLOptionsCollections. In both cases it returns a single element if 
> there are duplicate names.

Note that HTML5 defines the expected behaviour here in some detail.

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