- From: Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:23:11 -0400
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, David H?s?ther wrote: > > > > It would be more useful if the DOMTokenList methods (contains, add, > > remove, toggle) would take a space separated list of tokens. This is the > > behavior most DOM libraries have when dealing with class names. > > > > So, when setting two classes, instead of > > > > ele.classList.add("hey"); > > ele.classList.add("ho"); > > > > you could do > > > > ele.classList.add("hey ho"); > > > > Currently, the latter results in an INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR. > > > > The behavior of all methods should be obvious I guess. > > This has now moved to DOM Core. If you still want this I recommend filing > a bug on that spec. > > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html > > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Mike Taylor wrote: > > > > I would prefer if it returned the DOMTokenList, to enable chaining like: > > > > foo.toggle('bar baz').remove('bat'); > > That makes for very hard to read code, IMHO. I much prefer: > > foo.toggle('bar'); > foo.remove('bat'); > Mike's recommendation is the same API introduced by jQuery a few years ago and since then, there have been many requests to expand the signature to other jQuery APIs. The toggle('bar baz') is not a good example, it should be illustrated with .add() and .remove(): foo.add("many class name strings"); foo.remove("many class name strings"); Adding >1 class at a time is a _very_ common pattern in "real world" web development. Rick > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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