- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:53:39 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Ric Hardacre wrote:
>
> [scriplets] need to check that they're running on a compatible scripting
> engine, just checking for the existence of document.getElementById is
> the simple way (If there are better ways then I'm always open to
> learning). But I'm presented with an issue, suppose for example I wanted
> to emulate the datalist element for a text box. I can use the DOM and
> some on-the fly CSS to build a Javascript emulated datalist, but how
> would one go about ensuring that if/when it encounters a browser that
> can handle the datalist that it does not execute? This is probably quite
> an open question and yes I'm aware of the
> embedding-a-select-inside-the-datalist solution to this particular
> example, but the general question remains: How to script WF2
> functionality for current browsers in a way that both degrades AND
> yields to the UA when it can handle the functionality natively?
For <datalist>, you could just check the class name of a <datalist>
element, or check to see if the <input> element has a "list" DOM
attribute, as in "if ('list' in inputElement)".
Cheers,
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