[whatwg] Document.activeElement should return the root element in non-HTML documents when no element has focus

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Mon Feb 3 05:27:53 PST 2014


On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:29:42 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Cameron McCormack <cam at mcc.id.au> wrote:
>> When the document isn't an HTML document and when there is no element  
>> with
>> focus.  Browsers agree on returning null in an HTML document when there  
>> is
>> no element with focus, no <body> element, but still a document element.

[...]

> If the root element is html in the HTML namespace,
> you have that behavior, and otherwise you return the root element
> itself?

That sounds good to me.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software



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