- From: John Resig <jresig@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
> I presume what you want instead is that element-rooted queries are
> handled by matching such that each simple selector (CSS2 definition)
> or sequence of simple selectors (css3-selectors definition, and I
> *still* object to changing the meaning of existing terms) must match
> an element that is or is a descendant of the specified element (the
> root of the query).
>
> Or do you want to eliminate "is or" in my previous paragraph, to
> exclude the query root? Or something else?
I would exclude "is or" - only descendant elements, in this case. For example:
<div><div id="test"><div><div id="inner"></div></div></div></div>
<script>
// matches <div id="inner"></div>
document.getElementById("test").querySelectorAll("div div").length == 1
</script>
--John
Received on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 22:24:40 UTC