- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:46:16 +0200
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:03:03 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > You could loop over all the elements and make their class attributes equal > their ID attributes with underscores changed to spaces quite easily, which > would then allow you to use the method mentioned above, as well as letting > you use CSS and other class-based mechanisms. not really, since class is not a single thing, so it won't map cleanly to ID. > Does this help, or do you really think a getElementByIdPart() method > would be better? DOM 3 XPath (suitably mangled for HTML) would be much better than inventing lots of extra DOM methods. especially ones that rely on regexp matching to degrade in older UA's. Jim.
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