unexpected attr behavior on form with input element named 'action'

[rryan]

Given the following form:

<form action="someaction"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="somevalue"/> </form>

If you have the dom element for the form, 'f'.

f.action = "foo", sets the value of the input element, not the action attribute on the form.

f.setAttribute("action","foo") sets the action attribute on the form tag.

In jQuery, if you say $("#form").attr("action","foo"), it actually sets the input element named action to 'foo', instead of setting the attribute on the form tag. Is this a bug? 'attr' would seem to imply the functionality of 'setAttribute', not this magic 'action' accessor on the dom element.

Thanks for all your hard work!

[flesler]

This was already spotted, we do have a solution in mind. We'll review this for 1.3.

[flesler]

Imported from #2959.

[mw44118]

Slightly related: it seems impossible to select a form by using the action attribute; e.g.,

<form action="x"> </form>

$("form[action='x']") will return an empty set of nodes.