- From: Kornel Lesinski <kornel@ideadesigners.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:55:49 +0100
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:51:43 +0100, Anne van Kesteren
<fora at annevankesteren.nl> wrote:
>> It will also solve IMHO unclear case of getElementsByClassName("foo
>> bar") matching "bar foo". It would, as opposed to behavior where space
>> is both separator and part of class name.
>
> This is not how the CLASS attribute works. "foo bar" means the element
> has two classes bound to it, "foo" and "bar". With your syntax,
> getElementsByClassName("bar foo") would also need to match an element
> with "foo bar" as value for the CLASS attribute.
Sorry, that sentence might have been unclear.
In currently proposed implementation getElementsByClassName("foo bar")
doesn't match class="bar foo", but matches class="foo bar". This implies
that class attribute isn't just space-separated list of classes.
That's why I propose to make this function use exactly the syntax that
class attribute uses.
getElementsByClassName("bar foo") should match class="foo bar", class="bar
baz foo", etc.
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regards, Kornel Lesinski
Received on Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:55:49 UTC