microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Overload missing from createElementNS
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Description
### ⚙ Compilation target
ESNext
### ⚙ Library
6.0.0
### Missing / Incorrect Definition
overload is missing for the `createElementNS` in case provide `"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"` as `namespaceURI`.
```ts
// missing createElementNS(namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", qualifiedName: K): HTMLElementTagNameMap[K];
createElementNS(namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", qualifiedName: string): HTMLElement;
createElementNS(namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", qualifiedName: K): SVGElementTagNameMap[K];
createElementNS(namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", qualifiedName: string): SVGElement;
createElementNS(namespaceURI: "http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML", qualifiedName: K): MathMLElementTagNameMap[K];
```
### Sample Code
```TypeScript
document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", 'div'); // HTMLElement instead of HTMLDivElement
```
### Documentation Link
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Research direction
Start by locating the DOM library declaration for Document.createElementNS and compare its existing namespace-specific overloads. Add the missing XHTML overload shown in the issue, then run the relevant TypeScript library or compiler tests to verify that an XHTML tag such as "div" is inferred as HTMLDivElement rather than HTMLElement.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 75/100