Re: instanceof check on element always return true?

On 2 déc, 12:10, Ed <post2edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I receive an element in a Clickhandler like this:
> final Element el = event.getNativeEvent().getEventTarget().cast()
>
> It concerns a DIV element which the tag name shows.
>
> However, the following result in true:
> el instanceof DivElement (as expected).
> el instanceof InputElement (not expected!!).
> el instanceof LabelElement (not expected!!).
>
> What am I missing here? or is this a bug?

It's not a bug.

Element extends JavaScriptObject, which has specific "limitations":
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/OverlayTypes
(linked from the GWT doc: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsOverlay.html
)

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