WebReflection / WebReflection/linkedom

Exceptions thrown when setting Element's innerHTML or innerText with non-string value

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Description

Reproduciable example:

import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom';

const window = parseHTML('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body></body></html>');

// These are OK:
// window.document.body.innerHTML = '1';
// window.document.body.innerText = '1';

// These are not:
window.document.body.innerHTML = 1;
window.document.body.innerText = 1;

The behavior tested on the browser seems to be consistent with

set innerHTML(value) {
  internalSetInnerHTMLWithString(this, value === null ? '' : String(value));
}

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue's parseHTML example and compare assignments of numeric values with browser behavior. The issue does not mention a source file or test; done means setting innerHTML and innerText with non-string values no longer throws and follows the shown string-coercion behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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