Bug 14462 – empty <style> element doesn't get a StyleSheet object

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: DOM

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

I was trying to do the following in Javascript

var stylesheet = document.createElement('style');
stylesheet.type = 'text/css';
stylesheet.rel = 'stylesheet';
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(stylesheet);
var styles = stylesheet.sheet ? stylesheet.sheet : stylesheet.styleSheet;


However this would not work, when testing the value styles, it was null. With help from mitzpettel on #webkit IRC it was determined I needed to add: stylesheet.appendChild(document.createTextNode()); before appending the new style-element to the head-element.

[Rob Buis]

Created attachment 15516 [details]
First attempt

This should fix the problem. I still don't like the StyleElement class 100%, but I think its a bit better now...
Cheers,

Rob.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Comment on attachment 15516 [details]
First attempt

r=me

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

I landed this for Rob in r24302.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I've reverted this fix for bug 45205, but its regression test still passes with ToT.