getElementsByTagName gives us the same result for IE and Firefox

Question

We are using the getElementsByTagName function to find out domnodes present in the article. We found that IE and Firefox give different result for broken tag as below.

e.g. <a href="http://www.yahoo.com"&gt;Bypass HTML tags</ a> &nbsp; Complte 2 Fails

In IE : for above example we will get two nodes 'A' and '/'.

In firefox for above example we will get one node 'A'.

Both browsers should give same Dom elements.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

</ a> is not valid (X)HTML. You want </a>

Answer 2

el.getElementsByTagName('A') // gives Anchor text child nodes of el
el.getElementsByTagName('*') // gives All elements of el

Answer 3

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.getElementsByTagName see this link, this is for firefox.function has only one parameter