From 1886b03d60157989f531d6c267dd2aea2a529b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Stephenson <sam@37signals.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:23:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prototype: Fix Element#readAttribute to work with the 'type'
 attribute in IE.  Closes #8160.

---
 CHANGELOG          | 6 +++++-
 src/dom.js         | 1 +
 test/unit/dom.html | 6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index d8849a0..d7f464c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-*1.5.1_rc3 (April 24, 2007)*
+*SVN*
+
+* Fix Element#readAttribute to work with the 'type' attribute in IE.  Closes #8160.  [Tobie Langel, Wiktor Ihárosi]
+
+*1.5.1_rc3* (April 24, 2007)
 
 * Add Element#childElements as an alias for Element#immediateDescendants.  [Tobie Langel]
 
diff --git a/src/dom.js b/src/dom.js
index 5f07e88..a0fb444 100644
--- a/src/dom.js
+++ b/src/dom.js
@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ Element._attributeTranslations = {
   Object.extend(this, {
     href: this._getAttr,
     src:  this._getAttr,
+    type: this._getAttr,
     disabled: this._flag,
     checked:  this._flag,
     readonly: this._flag,
diff --git a/test/unit/dom.html b/test/unit/dom.html
index da3dbf8..2338cb5 100644
--- a/test/unit/dom.html
+++ b/test/unit/dom.html
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
   <input type="checkbox" id="attributes_with_issues_checked" name="a" checked="checked"/>
   <input type="checkbox" id="attributes_with_issues_disabled" name="b" checked="checked" disabled="disabled"/>
   <input type="text" id="attributes_with_issues_readonly" name="c" readonly="readonly" value="blech"/>
+  <input type="date" id="attributes_with_issues_type" value="blech" />
   <select id="attributes_with_issues_multiple" name="e" multiple="multiple">
     <option>blech</option>
     <option>blah</option>
@@ -825,7 +826,10 @@
       ['checked','disabled','readonly','multiple'].each(function(attr){
         assertEqual(attr, $('attributes_with_issues_'+attr).readAttribute(attr));
       });
-    
+      
+      assertEqual('date', $('attributes_with_issues_type').readAttribute('type'));
+      assertEqual('text', $('attributes_with_issues_readonly').readAttribute('type'));
+      
       var elements = $('custom_attributes').immediateDescendants();
       assertEnumEqual(['1', '2'], elements.invoke('readAttribute', 'foo'));
       assertEnumEqual(['2', null], elements.invoke('readAttribute', 'bar'));