- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:28:54 -0700
- To: John Resig <jresig@mozilla.com>
- CC: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, public-webapi@w3.org
John Resig wrote: > >> 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> But that would mean that .querySelectorAll(":root div") would never match anything since :root (or :scope) could only match the element itself, which of course isn't a descendant. / Jonas
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