Typescript: Wrong description of document.getElementById parameter

Created on 1 Oct 2020  路  2Comments  路  Source: microsoft/TypeScript

TypeScript Version: 4.0.2

Search Terms:
document getElementById

Expected behavior:
document.getElementById takes one case-sensitive parameter for an element-ID

Described on MDN

Actual behavior:
The tooltip of document.getElementById tells me, that the parameter:

  1. is case-INsensitive
  2. matches element ID & NAME

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Bug lib.d.ts help wanted
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picture ulrichstark

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I can't even figure out where we got that wrong text from :\

picture RyanCavanaugh on 1 Oct 2020
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I can't even figure out where we got that wrong text from :\

RyanCavanaugh picture RyanCavanaugh on 1 Oct 2020
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Looks to probably be a manual override in the dom types generator: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator/blob/30fb5f4387cf1e45d3bedc069fe60f3348802a29/inputfiles/comments.json#L837

orta picture orta on 1 Oct 2020
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