Watchout for getElementById bug

Being a web developer targeting IE 7, We should be very careful with the way getElementById method behaves in IE 7. According to getElementById explanation on MSDN:

this method performs a case-insensitive match on both the ID and NAME attributes, which might produce unexpected results

We may NOT see any problem with this method as long as the ID and Name attributes of the controls on the webpage are same (which is the case most of the time). But, when values of these attributes are different e.g. while using a Master Page which mangles ID attributes by appending "_" and Name attribute using "$", getElementById in IE 7.0 might produce unexpected results. Read more about this bug here.

HTH,

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