- From: Doron Rosenberg <doronr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:23:38 -0500
People keep asking about getElementsBy{Something}, so having a
getElementsByAttribute (I believe Mozilla's XBL impl has a similar
beast) would cover all those requests.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:13:20 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Doron Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't a getElementsByAttribute be a more flexiable solution?
>
> It depends, what exactly did you have in mind?
>
> Note that the "." selector in CSS can't be directly emulated even with a
> single "[ =~ ]" selector.
>
> I think for most uses, DOM Traversal is the way to go here.
> getElementsByClass is IMHO an exception, in that implementing it as a node
> filter is non-trivial.
>
>
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