- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 23:28:28 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Joseph Pecoraro wrote:
>
> Was there any discussion for including "document.head" in HTML5?
> Searching the mailing list shows document.head show up a few times in
> example code [1][2]. However, there has been no proposal, and it is not
> mentioned in the document's IDL [3] in the Spec.
>
> Developers often do the following to get a reference to the <head>
> element (top 2 google results) [4]:
>
> var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
>
> Its useful for developers to use that reference to manipulate/append
> stylesheets, scripts, and <style> elements which are only valid inside
> the <head> when the scope attribute is absent [5].
>
> I feel this would be useful to add. It is confusing that there is a
> "document.body" but no "document.head". If added, code that interacts
> with the <head> would be much clearer then the current popular approach
> (shown above). Also, the current approach, barring optimizations in the
> engine, could search the entire DOM tree.
Done.
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