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fieldset.elements returns an HTMLCollection, not an HTMLFormControlsCollection

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 57)

Intent stage

None

Summary

The specification was changed so that fieldset.elements returns an HTMLCollection instead of an HTMLFormControlsCollection. https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/934887d313305448b7ba6dd3af6f7434e1b600c8

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#dom-fieldset-elements
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/665291

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