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I've also noticed this a few years ago, but where is this documented? Was it already the case in IE6 for example? Have you found any definitive source, which st
by onetom 3y ago
I've also noticed this a few years ago, but where is this documented?
Was it already the case in IE6 for example?
Have you found any definitive source, which states this behaviour?
- serial_dev 3y agoHTML Spec: > 7.2.2.3 Named access on the Window object > window[name] > Returns the indicated element or collection of elements. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#named-access-on-the-window-object https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html...
- lifthrasiir 3y agoThe relevant WHATWG specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#dom-window-nameditem https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html... It was said to be introduced in MSIE 4 or around and then eventually standardized by WHATWG (because `window` was never formally specified before that point, AFAIK): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9740275/html-element-id-as-javascript-variable https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9740275/html-element-id-...