Bug 14805

Summary: innerText doesn't return display:none or visibility:hidden text
Product: WebKit Reporter: Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman.wiki>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: Minor CC: ahmad.saleem792, ap, bfulgham, getspoolblog, idollash, kangax, marakoneczek, marcus, mitz, nishgau28, promotools, rniwa, sam, wadechew029
Priority: P4    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.4   
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Description Flags
Test case from Comment #0
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Safari 15.6 matches with other browsers none

Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2007-07-29 13:03:13 PDT
I trust the intent here is to emulate IE behaviour, because innerText does not seem to have a standard specification.

It seems that there is currently a difference in behaviour though, take the following HTML
<td><span style="display:none">02005-06-02</span> <a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a>, <a href="/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a></td>

in IE innerText should result in: "02005-06-02 June 2, 2005"  (at least earlier versions, I did not test in IE7)
on Safari 3.0.2 i get: "June 2, 2005"
Comment 1 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-07-29 13:58:42 PDT
Created attachment 15725 [details]
Test case from Comment #0

Both Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) with original WebKit and Safari 3 Public Beta v. 3.0.2 (522.12) with a local debug build of WebKit r24749 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) both result in:

Actual td.innerText = 'June 2, 2005'

Firefox 2.0.0.5 on 10.4.10:

Actual td.innerText = 'undefined'
Comment 2 Sam Weinig 2007-07-29 14:39:12 PDT
As a work around, you can can use the textContent attribute to get the same result as innerText on IE.
Comment 3 Derk-Jan Hartman 2007-08-09 15:17:20 PDT
This workaround is now used in wikipedia http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=24647

However, i still think that if we implement IE specific behaviour, it should either work exactly like that, or not be implemented at all.
Comment 7 dawn wells 2018-11-03 05:54:22 PDT
Thank you for the workaround. I will soon try that and will update you on my website http://www.soundadvicefl.com/. Will it work for any other browser?
Comment 10 Ahmad Saleem 2022-08-09 10:02:24 PDT
Created attachment 461506 [details]
Safari 15.6 matches with other browsers

I am not able to reproduce this bug and as can be seen from attached screenshot, all browsers (Chrome Canary 106, Firefox Nightly 105 and Safari 15.6) match each other in test case. I am going to mark this as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED".

If this is still present, please ignore my comment and reopen. Thanks!
Comment 11 Alexey Proskuryakov 2022-08-18 16:24:10 PDT
Our behavior hasn't changed, but no changes are expected as all current browsers align.