Document.getElementById() returns element with name equal to id specified
I have previously mentioned in this SO about the funny behavior for IE6/7 (and some versions of Opera) in that document.getElementById can find an element whose name attribute is defined but not the id attribute, such that function f() { document.getElementById("a1").value = ...; } ... <input name="a1" ...></input> actually works in these versions. Searching through the net I found this bug report by Chris Bloom, in which a user named Milo van der Leij points out the following (as referred by him in this w3c spec ): In their defense: "The id and name attributes share the same name space." What