Internet Explorer weirdness - function item() { [native code] } - what does it do?

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Answer 1

It's a function on the window object. in Internet Explorer. It's not part of the websites, in other words, it's part of the browser.

It's from the HTMLCollection interface, part of the DOM spec. Internet Explorer seems to consider the window object to be a collection.