Re: Selectors API: Multiple elements with the same ID

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:30:58 -0500, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>  
wrote:
> This is out of scope of the document. The method would return all
> elements that match the selector. When an element matches a selector
> is defined by the CSS Selectors specification. If that specification
> is unclear about this case, that's for the CSS WG to address. All
> the API specification could usefully say is how getElementById(...)
> compares to the method that returns a single element if we are to
> keep that method, since the behavior of the two may be different.

Yes, they are prolly slightly different (although I haven't actually seen  
any documentation on how getElementById exactly works). Do you have any  
proposed text? Or should we wait until it's clear how getElementById  
really works?


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:07:22 UTC