Re: [selectors-api] QSA and findAll definitions

I was a little confused. I realized something I already knew in that elem.querySelector[All] does limit the matched set to the descendants of element, but the selector itself is not relative. Sorry about that. 


​I guess my only question now is what is the difference between the way .find[All] and .querySelector[All] relate to the context object? Why the wording difference?


Thanks again, 


- Timmy

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Timmy <timmywillisn@gmail.com> wrote:

> The wording of the QSA and findAll definitions are a bit confusing to me. Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but the definitions for querySelector[All] and find[All] seem to be partly reversed.
> First, the definition of subtrees seems clear enough:
> "The term subtrees refers to the set of elements that are descendants of the specified context object."
> However, the definition for querySelector currently states: "return the first matching Element node within the subtrees of the context object". Isn't that the definition for find? Element#querySelector does not limit matching to subtrees of the context object. `elem.querySelector("div")` will return all divs on the page, not just descendants of `elem`. I assume this was not meant to be changed here.
> find states: "return the first matching Element node from the tree within which the context object is located". This sounds just like what querySelector is supposed to do. Element#querySelector returns results based off of the tree in which the element is located.
> Thanks,
> - Timmy