- 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
Received on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 22:30:20 UTC