Element accessible with ID

Question

I saw a strange behavior. I created a Input.

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and tried to access it directly fr

Answer 1

Back in the days of 4.0 browsers, Microsoft decided that it would be convenient to create, for every element with an id, a global variable with the same name as the id containing a reference to that element.

Support for this has appeared in some other browsers (in some rendering modes). This support is not universal so the feature should be avoided.