Bug 18403 - A link's search property cannot be changed
Summary: A link's search property cannot be changed
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: JavaScriptCore (show other bugs)
Version: 525.x (Safari 3.1)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.5
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://home.react.nl/~michiel/webkit-...
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Reported: 2008-04-10 04:34 PDT by Michiel Roding
Modified: 2011-06-15 01:58 PDT (History)
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Description Michiel Roding 2008-04-10 04:34:02 PDT 
it seems a link (<a href="..">) search-property cannot be changed. Other browsers do have this ability.
Comment 1 Michiel Roding 2008-04-10 04:34:45 PDT 
a copy of the demo:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
	<title>WebKit bug</title>
	<meta name="author" content="Michiel Roding">
</head>
<body>
	<a href="http://www.apple.com/imac?ipod=touch#macpro">demo link</a>

	<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
		document.links[0].search = 'test';
	</script>
</body>
</html>
Comment 2 Gavin Barraclough 2011-06-15 01:58:08 PDT 
Looks like this testcase now works in ToT - please reopen if I'm misinterpreting the results.