- From: Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@w3future.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:05:48 +0200
Erik Arvidsson wrote:
> I'm writing this to
> suggest a related method that takes an element and returns true if it
> matches a CSS rule
>
> interface GetElementsBySelector {
> NodeList getElementsBySelector(in DOMString cssSelector);
>
> // returns true if an element matches the given CSS selector
> boolean matchesSelector(in Element el, in DOMString cssSelector);
> }
>
> I'm not too sure about the name of this method so suggestions for a
> better name are welcome (as well as any other comment of course).
>
> Another thing that just I'm not too sure about is whether these should
> include pseudo classes? It would be good but it makes things harder to
> implement.
>
> In the light of the bindings and behaviors scenario it would also be
> very useful to have observers so one call tell when the matching
> changes. It might be outside the scope of web apps 1.0 though?
These features would be nice for all methods that return NodeLists. As
NodeLists are live, adding a contains method, and a modification event
to the NodeList interface should cover all you need and much more.
--
Sjoerd Visscher
http://w3future.com/weblog/
Received on Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:05:48 UTC