Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-10-10 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:02:19 -0400
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <5255EE8B.2000007@mit.edu>

On 6/28/13 10:01 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 6/28/13 5:06 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> getElementById("foo") is just querySelector("#foo")
>
> This is actually false.  For example, getElementById("foo:bar") is just
> querySelector("#foo\\:bar"), which is ... nonobvious.

And today someone asked me how to do the equivalent of 
getElementById("\n") with querySelector.  That one is even more non-obvious.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2013 00:02:45 UTC