How to use non-standard attributes in a tag?

[F. Da Costa]

Hi,

Is it possible to get Gecko to react to the following tag in the same way
that IE5+ does? (ie.show the value of the row attribute rather than
'undefined')

<a onclick="alert(this+' ~~ '+this.row);" row="1" />

Or is Gecko doing the right thing and IE5+ *not* conforming to standard
(again)?

In short: is there a way to get this to work properly?

TIA,
Fermin DCG

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Is it possible to get Gecko to react to the following tag in the same
way that IE5+ does? (ie.show the value of the row attribute rather than
'undefined')

<a onclick="alert(this+' ~~ '+this.row);" row="1" />

<a onclick="alert(this+' ~~ '+this.getAttribute('row'));" row="1" />

But you should probably be using your own XML namespace.

 

[F. Da Costa]

<a onclick="alert(this+' ~~ '+this.getAttribute('row'));" row="1" />

Thx for the reply (overlooked that possibility).

But you should probably be using your own XML namespace.

If and when there were more of these things going on i'd agree. However,
this is most likely the only one so i'll leave that can of worms closed
(for now)