[thelist] Javascript methods playing up

[Christian Heilmann]

> Hi guys,
> 
> Can anyone give me a rational explanation of why the following causes IE
> to choke?
> 
>     var pageTitle =
> document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
> 
> It works perfectly in Firefox and Opera.

Well, logically the document title cannot have children, so it does
make a bit of sense.

document.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].text

works for all.

document.title is shorter though, and not illegal either.

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