From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 BuildID: 2001-08-13-09-trunk document.createCDATASection("text") raised exception... Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80530009 [nsIDOMHTMLDocument.createCDATASection]" nsresult: "0x80530009 (<unknown>)" location: "JS frame :: http://bubblegum.mcom.com/ngdriver/suites/dom1/cdoc009.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 48" data: no] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: <script> var txt=document.createCDATASection("sometext"); document.write(txt.data); </script> Actual Results: none Expected Results: sometext

See also bug 89697. Since there is no such thing as a CDATA section in HTML, the exception throwing is correct. The exception thrown however is not helpful at all, but that is bug 89697. Thoughts?

*** Bug 107016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Invalid, the DOM spec says we should throw the exception, so we do. The error is now much more informative too.

verified that the error message is more informative.